Category:Military and Warfare Tropes

"It is well that war is so terrible -- lest we should grow too fond of it." —Robert E. Lee

“War is the father of us all, King of all. Some it makes gods, some it makes men, some it makes slaves, some free.” —Heraclitus

War stories are not quite as convention-laden as The Western or Commedia Dell'Arte, but it is a near thing. And The Army is frequently featured in such stories for some reason... Here are some things you may rely on.

Historical Wars

• The Trojan War (approx. 1194-1184 BC)
• Greco Persian Wars (499-450 BC)
• Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC)
• Macedonian Succession Wars (323BC-275BC)
• Punic Wars (264-146 BC)
• Maccabean Revolt (166BC-129BC)
• Jewish Revolts (66-117)
• The Crusades (1095-1291)
• Turkish-European Wars (1071-1683)^[1]
  • Ottoman Rise(Early Ottoman conquests in late middle ages)
  • Fall of Constantinople(1453)
  • Battle of Lepanto(1571)
  • Siege of Vienna (1683)
  • European Reconquest(Austria&Russia vs Ottomans Seventeenth-Nineteenth centuries)
• Hundred Years' War (1337-1453)
• Wars of the Roses (1455-1485)
• Italian Wars (1494-1559)
• Eighty Years' War (1568-1648)
• Dutch-Portuguese War (1602-1640)
• Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)
• English Civil War (1642-1649), a part of the Three Kingdoms Wars (1639-1653)
• Hanover-Stuart Wars (Seventeenth and Eighteenth century).
• Anglo-Dutch Wars (1652-1781)
• Great Northern War (1700-1721)
• War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714)
• War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748)
• Seven Years War (1754-1763)
• The American Revolution (1775-1783)
• Napoleonic Wars (1789-1815)
• The War of 1812 (1812-1815)
• War of the Confederation (1836-1839)
• Mexican-American War (1846-1848)
• Wars of Italian Independence (1848-1866)
• Crimean War (1853–56)
• Sepoy Rebellion (1857)
• The American Civil War (1861-1865)
• Chincha Islands War (1864-1866)
• War of the Triple Alliance (1864-1870)
• Austro Prussian War (1866)
• Franco Prussian War (1870-1871)
• Anglo-Zulu War (January–July 1879)
• War of the Pacific (1879-1883)
• First Sino Japanese War (1894-1895)
• The River War (1881-1898)
• Spanish–American War (1898)
• Second Boer War (1899-1902)
• Russo Japanese War (1904-1905)
• Mexican Revolution (1910-1921)
• World War One (1914-1918)
  • The Poppy
• Russian Civil War (1917-1922)
  • Polish Soviet War (1919-1921)
• Irish Revolution (War of Independence 1919-1921, Civil War 1922-1923)
• Chinese Civil War (Initial campaigns 1927-1936, intermittent fighting 1941-1945, full-scale war 1946-1949.)
• Chaco War (1932-1935)
• Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
• Second Sino-Japanese War (1937 - 1945)
• World War II (1939-1945)
• The Cold War: (c.1945-c.1991. Historians disagree on the precise date it started)
  • The Korean War (1950-1953 for the main fighting, although technically still ongoing and best described as a high tension Cold War in East Asia)
  • The Indochina Wars (1946-1975)
    • The Vietnam War (1959-1975)
  • Bay of Pigs Invasion (April 17-April 19, 1961)
  • Operation Urgent Fury (October–December 1983)
  • Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan (1979-1989)
• Arab Israeli Conflict (1948-)
• Indian Pakistani Wars
• The Troubles (1968-1998)
• The Football War (July 1969)
• Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), also known as the Gulf War.
• The Falklands War (or Malvinas War, to some) (2 April-20 June 1982)
• Sri Lankan Civil War (1983-2009)
• First Gulf War (1990-1991) also known as the Second Gulf War
• The Yugoslav Wars (1991-2001)
• Congo Wars (1996-2003)
• The War on Terror (2001-, includes Afghanistan and Iraq wars)