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List of wars by death toll
A ranked compilation of armed conflicts by estimated human fatalities, counting combatant and civilian deaths and, where reliable, indirect losses from war-related disease, famine, and displacement.
List of wars in the Indian subcontinent
Wars of the Indian subcontinent: ancient chaturanga armies, Tarain 1192 and the Delhi Sultanate's Mongol defense, colonial-era Maratha, Sikh and 1857 conflicts, and the India-Pakistan wars of 1947, 1965, 1971 and Kargil 1999 plus Kashmir insurgency.
List of wars involving Israel
List of wars involving Israel: the nine officially recognized Israeli wars from the 1948 War of Independence through the 2023 Swords of Iron war, plus major operations in Lebanon, Gaza, Syria, and Iran.
List of wars involving Russia
Wars involving Russia: armed conflicts of Rus, the Russian Empire, the USSR, and the Russian Federation, from the Crimean and Russo-Turkish wars to Afghanistan, the Chechen wars, Georgia 2008, Syria, and the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
List of wars involving the People's Republic of China
Wars involving the People's Republic of China, also called PRC military conflicts: founded 1949, it fought the Korean War (1950–1953), Sino-Indian War (1962), Sino-Soviet border clash (1969), Paracels seizure (1974), Sino-Vietnamese War (1979), and Spratlys seizure (1988), with no declared war since.
List of wars involving the United Kingdom
Wars involving the United Kingdom, also called Britain's military conflicts: Napoleonic Wars 1803–15, Crimean War, both world wars, Korea, Operation Shader since 2014, and 2026 defensive operations in the Israel/US–Iran conflict.
List of wars involving the United Kingdom in the 19th century
Wars involving the United Kingdom in the 19th century: Napoleonic Wars, War of 1812, Sikh, Afghan, Crimean, Zulu, and Boer wars, plus about 250 colonial campaigns.
List of wars involving the United Kingdom in the 20th century
Wars involving the United Kingdom in the 20th century: the two World Wars, Irish War of Independence, Korea, Malaya, Kenya, Cyprus, Suez, Aden, Borneo, Falklands 1982, Gulf War 1991, Northern Ireland, and NATO Balkans peacekeeping.
List of wars involving the United Kingdom in the 21st century
Wars involving the United Kingdom in the 21st century: Afghanistan (Operations Veritas, Herrick, Toral, 2001-2021), Iraq (Operation Telic, 2003), Libya 2011, Operation Shader against Islamic State, Red Sea strikes, and NATO commitments including KFOR.
List of wars involving the United States in the 18th century
Wars involving the United States in the 18th century: the Revolutionary War (1775–1783), Cherokee–American wars (1776–1794), Northwest Indian War (1785–1795), and the Quasi-War with France (1798–1800), with dates, outcomes, and treaties.
List of wars involving the United States in the 19th century (1851-1900)
US wars 1851-1900: Indian Wars campaigns (Oregon 1851-56, Red River 1874-75, Great Sioux War 1876-77, Wounded Knee 1890), the Civil War 1861-65, the 1898 Spanish-American War, and the Boxer Rebellion expedition.
List of wars involving the United States in the 20th century
20th-century U.S. wars: five major conflicts (World Wars I and II, Korea, Vietnam, Persian Gulf) plus smaller interventions; only the two world wars had formal declarations of war, the last in 1942.
List of wars involving the United States in the 21st century
21st-century U.S. wars: Afghanistan (2001–2021), Iraq (2003–2011 and after), Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan drone strikes, and the 2025 Iran war; fought under the 2001 and 2002 AUMFs, costing $8 trillion and roughly 900,000 direct deaths.
List of wars: 1800–1899
List of 19th-century wars, 1800–1899: Napoleonic Wars, Latin American independence, Taiping Rebellion, Crimean War, American Civil War, unification wars, and 1890s colonial conflicts.
List of wars: 1945–1989
Wars of 1945–1989: Cold War-era conflicts from World War II's end to the Berlin Wall's fall, defined by UCDP thresholds (25 deaths armed conflict, 1,000 war), proxy wars in Korea and Vietnam, and 132 internal conflicts.
List of wars: 2020–present
Wars from 2020 to the present, counted under UCDP definitions (25 battle-related deaths/year): 65 active conflicts in 2025, the most since 1946, including Russia-Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan, and Myanmar civil wars.
List of weapons of the Rhodesian Bush War
Weapons of the Rhodesian Bush War (1964-1979): Rhodesian FN FAL, G3, FN MAG, Browning Hi-Power, Alouette III Fireforce, Pookie mine detector; ZANLA and ZIPRA AK-47, SKS, RPG-7 under UN embargo.
List of World War II battles involving the United States
Major World War II battles and campaigns with the United States as a principal participant, from Pearl Harbor (December 1941) through Midway, Guadalcanal, Normandy, the Bulge, and Okinawa, with dates, theaters, and casualty figures.
List of World War II military operations
List of World War II military operations: catalog of code-named Allied and Axis operations such as Overlord, Torch, Neptune, Husky, and Dragoon, plus how the Inter-Services Security Board and Churchill controlled naming.
Lists of wars
Lists of wars: systematic catalogs of armed conflicts such as UCDP (25 battle-deaths/year, 1946–), Correlates of War (1,000 deaths, 1816–2007), and ACLED (no threshold), differing by definitions, coverage, and data methods.
Lists of wars involving the United States
Lists of wars involving the United States, also called America's Wars or U.S. periods of war, compile U.S. conflicts from 1775 onward; contents vary by compiler, spanning 11 declared wars in five conflicts to hundreds of undeclared military operations.
Lists of World War I flying aces
Lists of World War I flying aces, also called victory or Blue Max Level lists, rank pilots with five or more confirmed aerial victories. Scores differ by nation's credit rules, overclaiming, and lost records; Richthofen leads with 80.
Lithuanian Wars of Independence
The Lithuanian Wars of Independence (Nepriklausomybės karai) were the 1918–1920 conflicts in which newly independent Lithuania defended itself against Soviet Russia, the Bermontians, and Poland.
Little green men (Russo-Ukrainian War)
"Little green men" (later "polite people") were masked Russian soldiers in unmarked green uniforms who seized Crimea in February-March 2014, first denied and later acknowledged by Putin, enabling the peninsula's annexation.
Little Round Top
Little Round Top is a rocky hill in Gettysburg National Military Park, Pennsylvania, site of fierce Union defense on July 2, 1863, notably the 20th Maine's bayonet charge under Joshua Chamberlain, recently rehabilitated in 2022-2024.
Little Ships of Dunkirk
The Little Ships of Dunkirk were about 700 privately owned small craft requisitioned for Operation Dynamo (26 May-4 June 1940), the 338,226-troop evacuation; they ferried troops off shallow beaches but carried a minority, and most were crewed by the Royal Navy, not their owners.
Little War (Cuba)
The Little War (Guerra Chiquita) was a failed Cuban uprising against Spanish rule from 1879 to 1880, organized by Calixto García after the Pact of Zanjón.
Living history
Living history is a form of public history in which costumed interpreters use period clothing, tools, and settings to present the past, especially at museums and historic sites.
Livonian Brothers of the Sword
Livonian Brothers of the Sword (Fratres militiæ Christi de Livonia, Schwertbrüderorden): Catholic military order founded 1202 by Bishop Albert of Riga in Livonia, modeled on the Templars; defeated at Saule 1236 and merged into the Teutonic Order as the Livonian Order in 1237.
Livonian Crusade
The Livonian Crusade was a papally sanctioned series of military campaigns, traditionally dated 1198 to 1290, that conquered and Christianized present-day Latvia and Estonia, ending with the Semgallians' defeat.