The following
outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to war:
War – organised and often prolonged armed conflict that is carried out by
states or
non-state actors – is characterised by extreme
violence,
social
Social organisms, including human(s), live collectively in interacting populations. This interaction is considered social whether they are aware of it or not, and whether the exchange is voluntary or not.
Etymology
The word "social" derives from ...
disruption, and economic destruction.
War should be understood as an actual, intentional and widespread armed conflict between political communities, and therefore is defined as a form of
political violence or
intervention.
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Warfare
War is an intense armed conflict between states, governments, societies, or paramilitary groups such as mercenaries, insurgents, and militias. It is generally characterized by extreme violence, destruction, and mortality, using regu ...
'' refers to the common activities and characteristics of types of war, or of wars in general.
Types of war
Types of warfare
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Asymmetric warfare
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Expeditionary warfare
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Expeditionary maneuver warfare
Warfare by objective
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Defensive warfare
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Offensive warfare
Warfare by strategic doctrine
Warfare by terrain
Warfare by equipment or weapon type
Warfare by era
Warfare by stages
Other
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Champion warfare
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Underwater warfare
History of war
Warfare by era
''See:
Warfare by era''
Wars
Wars by death toll
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List of wars by death toll
Wars by date
Wars by region
Wars by type of conflict
Battles
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Lists of battles
Lists of battles contain links to sets of articles on battles. They may be organized alphabetically, by era, by conflict, by participants or location, or by death toll. See :Battles for a complete list of articles on battles.
Alphabetical list
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List of battles by casualties
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List of orders of battle
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List of sieges
Military theory
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Military theory
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Philosophy of war
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Principles of war
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War cycles
Edward Russel Dewey (1895–1978) was an economist who studied cycles in economics and other fields.
Dewey's cycles work
Dewey first became interested in cycles while Chief Economic Analyst of the Department of Commerce in 1930 or 1931 becaus ...
Military organization
Operational level of war
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Blitzkrieg
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Soviet deep battle
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Maneuver warfare
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Operational manoeuvre group
= Military operations
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List of military operations
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Military operation plan
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Military operations other than war
Military operations other than war (MOOTW) focus on deterring war, resolving conflict, promoting peace, and supporting civil authorities in response to domestic crises. The phrase and acronym were coined by the United States military during the ...
Types of military operations
Types of military operations, by scope:
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Theater
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perfor ...
– operation over a large, often continental
area of operation In U.S. armed forces parlance, an area of operations (AO) is an operational area defined by the force commander for land, air, and naval forces conduct of combat and non-combat activities. Areas of operations do not typically encompass the entire op ...
and represents a strategic national commitment to the conflict such as
Operation Barbarossa, with general goals that encompass areas of consideration outside of the military such as the economic and political impacts.
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Campaign – subset of the theatre operation, or a more limited geographic and operational strategic commitment such as
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain, also known as the Air Battle for England (german: die Luftschlacht um England), was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Fleet Air Arm (FAA) of the Royal Navy defende ...
, and need not represent total national commitment to a conflict, or have broader goals outside of the military impacts.
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Battle
A battle is an occurrence of combat in warfare between opposing military units of any number or size. A war usually consists of multiple battles. In general, a battle is a military engagement that is well defined in duration, area, and for ...
– subset of a campaign that will have specific military goals and geographic objectives, as well as clearly defined use of forces such as the
Battle of Gallipoli, which operationally was a
combined arms operation originally known as the "Dardanelles landings" as part of the
Dardanelles Campaign, where about 480,000
Allied troops took part.
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Engagement – tactical combat event of contest for specific area or objective by actions of distinct units. For example, the
Battle of Kursk, also known from its German designation as Operation Citadel, included many separate engagements, several of which were combined into the
Battle of Prokhorovka. The "Battle of Kursk" in addition to describing the initial German offensive operation (or simply an offensive), also included two Soviet counter-offensive operations
Operation Kutuzov and
Operation Polkovodets Rumyantsev.
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Strike – single
attack, upon a specified
target
Target may refer to:
Physical items
* Shooting target, used in marksmanship training and various shooting sports
** Bullseye (target), the goal one for which one aims in many of these sports
** Aiming point, in field artillery, fi ...
. This often forms part of a broader engagement. Strikes have an explicit goal, such as, rendering facilities inoperable (e.g.
airport
An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport. Airports usually consists of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surfa ...
s), to
assassinating
Assassination is the murder of a prominent or important person, such as a head of state, head of government, politician, world leader, member of a royal family or CEO. The murder of a celebrity, activist, or artist, though they may not have a ...
enemy leaders, or to limit
supply to enemy troops.
Military strategy
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Attrition warfare
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Battlespace
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Military deception
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Naval strategy
Naval strategy is the planning and conduct of war at sea, the naval equivalent of military strategy on land.
Naval strategy, and the related concept of maritime strategy, concerns the overall strategy for achieving victory at sea, including th ...
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Offensive (military)
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Strategic defence
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Strategic goal (military)
Grand strategy
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Containment
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Economic warfare
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Military science
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Philosophy of war
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Strategic studies
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Total war
Total war is a type of warfare that includes any and all civilian-associated resources and infrastructure as legitimate military targets, mobilizes all of the resources of society to fight the war, and gives priority to warfare over non-com ...
Military tactics
Politics of war
* ''
Casus belli'' – Latin expression meaning the justification for acts of war. In theory, present international law allows only three situations as legal cause to go to war: out of self-defense, defense of an ally under a mutual defense pact, or sanctioned by the UN.
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Declaration of war
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Surrender
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Capitulation an agreement in time of war for the surrender to a hostile armed force of a particular body of troops, a town or a territory.
** Strategic surrender – surrender to avoid a last, chaotic round of fighting that would have the characteristics of a rout, allowing the victor to obtain his objective without paying the costs of a last battle.
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Unconditional surrender – surrender without conditions, except for those provided by international law.
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Victory
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Debellatio
The term "debellatio" or "debellation" ( Latin "defeating, or the act of conquering or subduing", literally, "warring (the enemy) down", from Latin ''bellum'' "war") designates the end of war caused by complete destruction of a hostile state. Isra ...
– when a war ends because of the complete destruction of a
belligerent state.
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No quarter – when a victor shows no clemency or mercy and refuses to spare the life of the vanquished when they surrender at discretion. Under the laws of war "... it is especially forbidden ... to declare that no quarter will be given".
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Pyrrhic victory – victory with such a devastating cost that it carries the implication that another such victory will ultimately lead to defeat.
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War effort
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War economy
Philosophy of war
Philosophy of war – examines war beyond the typical questions of weaponry and strategy, inquiring into such things as the meaning and
etiology of war, the relationship between war and human nature, and the ethics of war.
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Militarism – belief that war is not inherently bad but can be a beneficial aspect of society.
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Realism
Realism, Realistic, or Realists may refer to:
In the arts
*Realism (arts), the general attempt to depict subjects truthfully in different forms of the arts
Arts movements related to realism include:
* Classical Realism
*Literary realism, a mov ...
– its core proposition is a skepticism as to whether moral concepts such as justice can be applied to the conduct of international affairs. Proponents of realism believe that moral concepts should never prescribe, nor circumscribe, a state's behaviour. Instead, a state should place an emphasis on state security and self-interest. One form of realism – descriptive realism – proposes that states cannot act morally, while another form – prescriptive realism – argues that the motivating factor for a state is self-interest. Just wars that violate Just Wars principles effectively constitute a branch of realism.
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Revolution and
Civil War
A civil war or intrastate war is a war between organized groups within the same state (or country).
The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government polici ...
– Just War Theory states that a just war must have just authority. To the extent that this is interpreted as a legitimate government, this leaves little room for revolutionary war or civil war, in which an illegitimate entity may declare war for reasons that fit the remaining criteria of Just War Theory. This is less of a problem if the "just authority" is widely interpreted as "the will of the people" or similar. Article 3 of the 1949
Geneva Conventions
upright=1.15, Original document in single pages, 1864
The Geneva Conventions are four treaties, and three additional protocols, that establish international legal standards for humanitarian treatment in war. The singular term ''Geneva Conv ...
side-steps this issue by stating that if one of the parties to a civil war is a High Contracting Party (in practice, the state recognised by the international community,) both Parties to the conflict are bound "as a minimum, the following
umanitarianprovisions." Article 4 of the
Third Geneva Convention also makes clear that the treatment of prisoners of war is binding on both parties even when captured soldiers have an "allegiance to a government or an authority not recognized by the Detaining Power."
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Consequentialism – moral theory most frequently summarized in the words "the end justifies the means," which tends to support the just war theory (unless the just war causes less beneficial means to become necessary, which further requires worst actions for self-defense with bad consequences).
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Pacifism
Pacifism is the opposition or resistance to war, militarism (including conscription and mandatory military service) or violence. Pacifists generally reject theories of Just War. The word ''pacifism'' was coined by the French peace camp ...
– belief that war of any kind is morally unacceptable or pragmatically not worth the cost. Pacifists extend humanitarian concern not just to enemy civilians but also to combatants, especially conscripts. For example,
Ben Salmon believed all war to be unjust. He was sentenced to death during World War I (later commuted to 25 years hard labor) for desertion and spreading propaganda.
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Right of self-defence
The right of self-defense (also called, when it applies to the defense of another, alter ego defense, defense of others, defense of a third person) is the right for people to use reasonable or defensive force, for the purpose of defending one' ...
– maintains (based on
rational self-interest) that the use of retaliatory force is justified against repressive nations that break the
zero aggression principle. In addition, if a free country is itself subject to foreign aggression, it is morally imperative for that nation to defend itself and its citizens by whatever means necessary. Thus, any means to achieve a swift and complete victory over the enemy is imperative. This view is prominently held by
Objectivists.
"'Just War Theory'" vs. American Self-Defence
, by Yaron Brook and Alex Epstein
Laws of war
* Laws of war
* War crimes
** List of war crimes
Prisoners of war
Effects of war
* Casualties
** Casualty
** Casualty classifications
*** KIA – Killed In Action
**** DOW – Died Of Wounds
*** MIA – Missing In Action
*** WIA – Wounded in action
** Assassination
* List of genocides by death toll
War and culture
War-related media
War publications
* '' The Art of War''
* '' On War''
War films
* List of war films and TV specials – lists movies and shows by the war depicted in them, the sections arranged chronologically
Persons influential in war
* List of military writers
The following is a list of military writers, alphabetical by last name:
A
* Pierre Emmanuel Albert, Baron Ducasse
* Stephen Ambrose
* Raymond Aron
B
* Andrew Bacevich
* Ali Bader Iraq war
* Bao Ninh – ''The Sorrow of War'' (about the ...
Inventors of Military Technology
* Mozi
* Archimedes
*Wei Boyang
Wei Boyang () was a notable Chinese writer and Taoist alchemist of the Eastern Han Dynasty. He is the author of '' The Kinship of the Three'', and is noted as the first person to have documented the chemical composition of gunpowder in 142 AD.Peng ...
* Kallinikos
* Roger Bacon
* Leonardo da Vinci
* Richard Jordan Gatling
* Mikhail Kalashnikov
*Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein ( ; ; 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest and most influential physicists of all time. Einstein is best known for developing the theor ...
During the Classical Period
''Listed by date of approximate lifetime''
Ancient Egypt
* Mentuhotep
*Ramesses II
Ramesses II ( egy, rꜥ-ms-sw ''Rīʿa-məsī-sū'', , meaning "Ra is the one who bore him"; ), commonly known as Ramesses the Great, was the third pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt. Along with Thutmose III he is often regarded a ...
* Muwatalli I ( Hittite)
* Cleopatra ( Greek)
Ancient Near East
* Hammurabi
* Sargon II
* Nebuchadnezzar II
* Cyrus the Great
* Darius I
* Xerxes I
Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece ( el, Ἑλλάς, Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity ( AD 600), that comprised a loose collection of cu ...
* Themistocles
* Leonidas I
* Dionysius I of Syracuse
* Philip II of Macedon
* Alexander the Great
Alexander III of Macedon ( grc, Ἀλέξανδρος, Alexandros; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon. He succeeded his father Philip II to ...
* Diadochi
* Pyrrhus of Epirus
Ancient India
According to consensus in modern genetics, anatomically modern humans first arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa between 73,000 and 55,000 years ago. Quote: "Y-Chromosome and Mt-DNA data support the colonization of South Asia by ...
* Porus
* Ashoka
* Chandragupta
Ancient China and its enemies
* Sun Tzu
* Lian Po
* Bai Qi
* Li Mu
Li Mu (; died 229 BC), personal name Zuo (繓), courtesy name Mu (牧), was a Chinese military general of the State of Zhao during the Warring States period. He was named by Chinese historians as one of the four greatest generals of the late W ...
* Qin Shi Huang
Qin Shi Huang (, ; 259–210 BC) was the founder of the Qin dynasty and the first emperor of a unified China. Rather than maintain the title of " king" ( ''wáng'') borne by the previous Shang and Zhou rulers, he ruled as the First Empero ...
** Wang Jin
* Modu Chanyu
Modu, Maodun, Modun (, from Old Chinese (220 B.C.E.): *''mouᴴ-tuən'' or *''mək-tuən'', c. 234 – c. 174 BCE) was the son of Touman and the founder of the empire of the Xiongnu. He came to power by ordering his men to kill his father in 209 ...
* Huo Qubing
Huo Qubing (140 BC – 117 BC) was a Chinese military general and politician of the Western Han dynasty during the reign of Emperor Wu of Han. He was the nephew of the general Wei Qing and Empress Wei Zifu (Emperor Wu's wife), and the half-broth ...
* Wei Qing
* Trung Sisters
Ancient Rome and its enemies
* Mithridates VI of Pontus
* Scipio Africanus
* Hannibal
* Gaius Marius
* Julius Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar (; ; 12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC), was a Roman general and statesman. A member of the First Triumvirate, Caesar led the Roman armies in the Gallic Wars before defeating his political rival Pompey in a civil war, an ...
* Vercingetorix
* Arminius
* Boudica
* Decebalus
* Trajan
* Aurelian
Late Antiquity
Late antiquity is the time of transition from classical antiquity to the Middle Ages, generally spanning the 3rd–7th century in Europe and adjacent areas bordering the Mediterranean Basin. The popularization of this periodization in English h ...
* Constantine
* Flavius Aetius
* Atilla
Attila (, ; ), frequently called Attila the Hun, was the ruler of the Huns from 434 until his death in March 453. He was also the leader of a tribal empire consisting of Huns, Ostrogoths, Alans, and Bulgars, among others, in Central and ...
* Clovis I
* Shapur I
* Khosrow I
* Belisarius
* Bahram Chobin
* Shahin and Shahrbaraz
* Heraclius
* Khalid ibn al-Walid
During the Post-classical Period
Early Middle Ages
The Early Middle Ages (or early medieval period), sometimes controversially referred to as the Dark Ages, is typically regarded by historians as lasting from the late 5th or early 6th century to the 10th century. They marked the start of the Mi ...
* Charlemagne
Charlemagne ( , ) or Charles the Great ( la, Carolus Magnus; german: Karl der Große; 2 April 747 – 28 January 814), a member of the Carolingian dynasty, was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and the first E ...
* Ivar the Boneless
* Alfred the Great
* Cnut the Great
Cnut (; ang, Cnut cyning; non, Knútr inn ríki ; or , no, Knut den mektige, sv, Knut den Store. died 12 November 1035), also known as Cnut the Great and Canute, was King of England from 1016, King of Denmark from 1018, and King of Norw ...
* Basil the Bulgar Slayer
* William the Conqueror
William I; ang, WillelmI (Bates ''William the Conqueror'' p. 33– 9 September 1087), usually known as William the Conqueror and sometimes William the Bastard, was the first Norman king of England, reigning from 1066 until his death in 10 ...
High Middle Ages
The High Middle Ages, or High Medieval Period, was the periodization, period of European history that lasted from AD 1000 to 1300. The High Middle Ages were preceded by the Early Middle Ages and were followed by the Late Middle Ages, which ended ...
* Frederick Barbarossa
* Henry II of England
Henry II (5 March 1133 – 6 July 1189), also known as Henry Curtmantle (french: link=no, Court-manteau), Henry FitzEmpress, or Henry Plantagenet, was King of England from 1154 until his death in 1189, and as such, was the first Angevin kin ...
* Richard the Lionheart
* Philip II of France
* Alexander Nevsky
* El Cid
Islamic Golden Age
The Islamic Golden Age was a period of cultural, economic, and scientific flourishing in the history of Islam, traditionally dated from the 8th century to the 14th century. This period is traditionally understood to have begun during the reign ...
* Tariq ibn Ziyad
* Mahmud of Ghazni
* Alp Arslan
* Saladin
* Baibars
Medieval India
* Rajadhiraja Chola
* Prithviraj Chauhan
Medieval China
* Li Shimin
* An Lushan
* Zhao Kuangyin
* Yelu Dashi
* Zhu Yuanzhang
* Zheng He
Medieval Southeast Asia
*Jayavarman II
Jayavarman II ( km, ជ័យវរ្ម័នទី២; c. 770 – 850) (reigned c. 802–850) was a Khmer prince who founded and became the ruler of the Khmer Empire (Cambodia) after unifying the Khmer civilization. The Khmer Empire was the ...
* Gajah Mada
*Ramathibodi I
King U-thongThe Royal Institute. List of monarchs Ayutthaya''. ( th, พระเจ้าอู่ทอง) or King Ramathibodi I ( th, สมเด็จพระรามาธิบดีที่ ๑ ; 1314–1369) was the first king of ...
* Le Loi
Mongol Conquests
* Genghis Khan
* Ogedei Khan
* Subutai
* Kublai Khan
* Timur
Hundred Years War
* Edward III
* Henry V of England
* Charles VII of France
* Joan of Arc
During the Early Modern Period
Japanese Wars
* Oda Nobunga
* Toyotomi Hideyoshi
, otherwise known as and , was a Japanese samurai and ''daimyō'' (feudal lord) of the late Sengoku period regarded as the second "Great Unifier" of Japan.Richard Holmes, The World Atlas of Warfare: Military Innovations that Changed the Cour ...
* Tokugawa Ieyasu
* Yi Sun shin ( Korean)
Islamic Empires
* Mehmed the Conqueror
* Suleiman the Magnificent
* Nader Shah
* Akbar
European Colonization of the Americas
During the Age of Discovery, a large scale European colonization of the Americas took place between about 1492 and 1800. Although the Norse had explored and colonized areas of the North Atlantic, colonizing Greenland and creating a short t ...
* Hernán Cortés
* Cuauhtémoc
* Francisco Pizarro
* Powhaten
*Pontiac Pontiac may refer to:
*Pontiac (automobile), a car brand
*Pontiac (Ottawa leader) ( – 1769), a Native American war chief
Places and jurisdictions Canada
*Pontiac, Quebec, a municipality
** Apostolic Vicariate of Pontiac, now the Roman Catholic D ...
* Tecumseh
* Sitting Bull
Early Modern Europe
* Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden
*Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell (25 April 15993 September 1658) was an English politician and military officer who is widely regarded as one of the most important statesmen in English history. He came to prominence during the 1639 to 1651 Wars of the Three ...
* Peter the Great
* Frederick I of Prussia
* James Wolfe
* Louis-Joseph de Montcalm
Chinese Qing dynasty
* Wu Sangui
* Kangxi Emperor
The Kangxi Emperor (4 May 1654– 20 December 1722), also known by his temple name Emperor Shengzu of Qing, born Xuanye, was the third emperor of the Qing dynasty, and the second Qing emperor to rule over China proper, reigning from 1661 to ...
* Koxinga
* Ching Shih
Zheng Yi Sao (1775–1844; born Shi Yang, a.k.a. Shi Xianggu), also known as Ching Shih, was a Chinese pirate leader who was active in the South China Sea from 1801 to 1810.
Born as Shi Yang in 1775 to humble origins, she married a pirate nam ...
* Hong Xiuquan
Hong Xiuquan (1 January 1814 – 1 June 1864), born Hong Huoxiu and with the courtesy name Renkun, was a Chinese revolutionary who was the leader of the Taiping Rebellion against the Qing dynasty. He established the Taiping Heavenly Kingdo ...
American Revolutionary War
* George Washington
* Horatio Gates
* Benedict Arnold
* Marquis de Lafayette
* Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
Napoleonic Wars
The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of major global conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European states formed into various coalitions. It produced a period of Fre ...
* Horatio Nelson
* Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte ; it, Napoleone Bonaparte, ; co, Napulione Buonaparte. (born Napoleone Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military commander and political leader wh ...
* Arthur Wellesley
* Mikhail Kutuzov
Prince Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov ( rus, Князь Михаи́л Илларио́нович Голени́щев-Куту́зов, Knyaz' Mikhaíl Illariónovich Goleníshchev-Kutúzov; german: Mikhail Illarion Golenishchev-Kut ...
* Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
* Andrew Jackson (War of 1812
The War of 1812 (18 June 1812 – 17 February 1815) was fought by the United States of America and its indigenous allies against the United Kingdom and its allies in British North America, with limited participation by Spain in Florida. It be ...
)
Modern Period
American Civil War
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by Names of the American Civil War, other names) was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the Union (American Civil War), Union ("the North") and t ...
* Ulysses S Grant
Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant ; April 27, 1822July 23, 1885) was an American military officer and politician who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877. As Commanding General, he led the Union Ar ...
* Stonewall Jackson
* Robert E Lee
* George Mcclellan
* William Tecumseh Sherman
During World War I
* Douglas Haig
* Ferdinand Foch
* Louis F. d'Esperey
* John J. Pershing
* Joseph Joffre
* Paul von Hindenburg
* Erich Ludendorff
Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff (9 April 1865 – 20 December 1937) was a German general, politician and military theorist. He achieved fame during World War I for his central role in the German victories at Liège and Tannenberg in 1914. ...
* Erich von Falkenhayn
General Erich Georg Sebastian Anton von Falkenhayn (11 September 1861 – 8 April 1922) was the second Chief of the German General Staff of the First World War from September 1914 until 29 August 1916. He was removed on 29 August 1916 after ...
* August von Mackensen
Anton Ludwig Friedrich August von Mackensen (born Mackensen; 6 December 1849 – 8 November 1945), ennobled as "von Mackensen" in 1899, was a German field marshal. He commanded successfully during World War I of 1914–1918 and became one of ...
During World War II
This is divided between political Leaders, field commanders and other influential people
= Political Leaders
=
* Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and again from ...
* Adolf Hitler
* Benito Mussolini
* Franklin Roosevelt
* Chiang Kai Sheck
* Joseph Stalin
* Hideki Tojo
* Harry S. Truman
= Commanders
=
* Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis
* Omar Bradley
* Zhu De
* Dwight D. Eisenhower
* Charles de Gaulle
* Hermann Göring
* Heinrich Himmler
* Douglas MacArthur
* Ioannis Metaxas
* Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
* George S. Patton
George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a general in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh United States Army in the Mediterranean Theater of World War II, and the Third United States Army in France ...
* Erwin Rommel
* Hajime Sugiyama
* Josip Broz Tito
* Isoroku Yamamoto
* Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong pronounced ; also Romanization of Chinese, romanised traditionally as Mao Tse-tung. (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the List of national founde ...
* Georgy Zhukov
Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov ( rus, Георгий Константинович Жуков, p=ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪj kənstɐnʲˈtʲinəvʲɪtɕ ˈʐukəf, a=Ru-Георгий_Константинович_Жуков.ogg; 1 December 1896 – ...
=Others
=
* Richard Sorge, Russian spy
* Sofia Vembo
See also
War
Wars
References
* Charles Phillips and Alan Axelrod: ''Encyclopedia of Wars.'' Facts On File, Inc., 2005, . (With about 1,800 wars, this is probably the most complete overview in English language).
* R. Ernest Dupuy, Trevor N. Dupuy: ''The Harper Encyclopedia of Military History. From 3500 B.C. to the Present.'' 4th Edition, HarperCollins Publishers, 1993, . (With about 1,300 wars this is probably the second most complete overview in English language, with the added value to summarize about 4,500 battles).
* Vittorio Ferretti: ''Weltchronik der Kriege und Demozide - Ein Abriss der Ursachen, Abläufe und Folgen von über 5.000 gewalttätig ausgetragenen Konflikten bis zum Jahr 2000.'' Amazon, 2014, . (With over 5,000 conflicts, this German book is by far the most complete overview published in any language until now. Its added value is to include democides into its scope).
External links
*World History Database
Listing of all wars
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*Newspaper by Martin John Callanan
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br>translated into different languages listing all wars
Correlates of War Project
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry
Complex Emergency Database (CE-DAT)
– A database on the human impact of conflicts and other complex emergencies.
World War I primary source collection
International humanitarian law
– International Committee of the Red Cross website
International humanitarian law database
– Treaties and States Parties
Customary IHL Database
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