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The List of Inter-State Wars - Meredith Reid Sarkees The List of Inter-State Wars - Meredith Reid Sarkees Published in Meredith Reid Sarkees and Frank Whelon Wayman, Resort to War: A Data Guide to Inter-State, Extra-State, Intra-state, and Non-State Wars, 1816-2007 (Washington, DC: CQ Press 2010). The Inter-State War Data Set presented here includes 95 inter-state wars. Inter‐State Wars War# Name 1 Franco‐Spanish War of 1823 4 First Russo‐Turkish War of 1828‐1829 7 Mexican‐American War of 1846‐1847 10 Austro‐Sardinian War of 1848‐1849 13 First Schleswig‐Holstein War of 1848‐1849 16 War of the Roman Republic of 1849 19 La Plata War of 1851‐1852 22 Crimean War of 1853‐1856 25 Anglo‐Persian War of 1856‐1857 28 War of Italian Unification of 1859 31 First Spanish‐Moroccan War of 1859‐1860 34 Italian‐Roman War of 1860 37 Neapolitan War of 1860‐1861 40 Franco‐Mexican War of 1862‐1867 43 Ecuadorian‐Columbian War of 1863 46 Second Schleswig‐Holstein War of 1864 49 Lopez War of 1864‐1870 52 Naval War of 1865‐1866 55 Seven Weeks War of 1866 58 Franco‐Prussian War of 1870‐1871 60 First Central American War of 1876 61 Second Russo‐Turkish War of 1877‐1878 64 War of the Pacific of 1879‐1883 65 Conquest of Egypt of 1882 67 Sino‐French War of 1884‐1885 70 Second Central American War of 1885 73 First Sino‐Japanese War of 1894‐1895 76 Greco‐Turkish War of 1897 79 Spanish‐American War of 1898 Inter‐State Wars War# Name 82 Boxer Rebellion of 1900 83 Sino‐Russian War of 1900 85 Russo‐Japanese War of 1904‐1905 88 Third Central American War of 1906 91 Fourth Central American War of 1907 94 Second Spanish‐Moroccan War of 1909‐1910 97 Italian‐Turkish War of 1911‐1912 100 First Balkan War of 1912‐1913 103 Second Balkan War of 1913 106 World War I of 1914‐1918 107 Estonian War of Liberation of 1918‐1920 108 Latvian War of Liberation of 1918‐1920 109 Russo‐Polish War of 1919‐1920 112 Hungarian Adversaries of 1919 115 Second Greco‐Turkish War of 1919‐1922 116 Franco‐Turkish War of 1919‐1921 117 Lithuanian‐Polish War of 1920 118 Manchurian War of 1929 121 Second Sino‐Japanese War of 1931‐1933 124 Chaco War of 1932‐1935 125 Saudi‐Yemeni War of 1934 127 Conquest of Ethiopia of 1935‐1936 130 Third Sino‐Japanese War of 1937‐1941 133 Changkufeng War of 1938 136 Nomonhan War of 1939 139 World War II of 1939‐1945 142 Russo‐Finnish War of 1939‐1940 145 Franco‐Thai War of 1940‐1941 147 First Kashmir War of 1948‐1949 148 Arab‐Israeli War of 1948‐1949 151 Korean War of 1950‐1953 153 Off‐shore Islands War of 1954 155 Sinai War of 1956 156 Soviet Invasion of Hungary of 1956 158 Ifni War of 1957‐1959 159 Taiwan Straits War of 1958 160 War in Assam of 1962 Inter‐State Wars War# Name 163 Vietnam War Phase 2 of 1965‐1975 166 Second Kashmir War of 1965 169 Six Day War of 1967 170 Second Laotian War Phase 2, 1968‐1973 172 War of Attrition of 1969‐1970 175 Football War of 1969 176 War of the Communist Coalition of 1970‐1971 178 War for Bangladesh of 1971 181 Yom Kippur War of 1973 184 Turco‐Cypriot War of 1974 186 War Over Angola of 1975‐1976 187 Second Ogaden War of phase 2, 1977‐1979 189 Vietnamese‐Cambodian Border War of 1975‐1979 190 Ugandan‐Tanzanian War of 1978‐1979 193 Sino‐Vietnamese Punitive War of 1979 199 Iran‐Iraq War of 1980‐1988 202 Falklands War of 1982 205 War over Lebanon of 1982 207 War over the Aouzou Strip of 1986‐1987 208 Sino‐Vietnamese Border War of 1987 211 Gulf War of 1990‐1991 215 War of Bosnian Independence of 1992 216 Azeri‐Armenian War of 1993‐1994 217 Cenepa Valley War of 1995 219 Badme Border War of 1998‐2000 221 War for Kosovo of 1999 223 Kargil War of 1999 225 Invasion of Afghanistan of 2001 227 Invasion of Iraq of 2003 .
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