A Walk Back Through Time

Only the dead have seen the end of war
George Santayana
Soliloquies in England (1924) *


List of Wars

List of U.S. Military Events



Libyan War, 2011 (US)  • NATO

Iraq War, 2003-2011

War in Afghanistan, 2001-Present

Operation Allied Force (NATO vs. Yugoslavia), 1999

Operation Deliberate Force (Bosnia & Herzegovina), 1995

Persian Gulf War, 1990-1991

Falklands War, 1982

Yom Kippur War, 1973
• Operation Nickle Grass

Six Day War, 1967

Vietnam War, 1962-1973
(Department of Defense dates)

Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962

Suez War, 1956

Korean War, 1950-1953

Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949

Cold War, 1945-1991

World War II, 1937/39-1945

Battle of Khalkhin Gol, 1939

Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945

Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939

Russian Civil War, 1918-1920
• US Intervention

World War I, 1914-1918
• Battles

Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905

Philippine-American War, 1899-1913

Spanish-American War, 1898

Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871

Austro-Prussian War, 1866

American Civil War, 1861-1865

Frontier Indian Wars, 1861-1890

Pig "War", 1859-1872

Crimean War, 1854-1856

Mexican-American War, 1846-1848

Texas Revolution, 1835-1836

Seminole Wars, 1817-1858

Second Barbary (Algerian) War, 1815

War of 1812

Napoleonic Wars, 1804-1815

First Barbary (Tripolitan) War, 1801-1805

Quasi-War with France, 1797-1800 (US)

French Revolutionary Wars, 1792-1802

American Revolutionary War, 1775-1783

French and Indian War, 1754-1763



* Frequently attributed to Plato but not documented.  (More on this.)

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