Britain's 20th century 'small wars'
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Dillinger4
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Malayan emergency.
Russian Civil War
Ireland (pre-independence of the south)
Yemen
Rhodesia/Zimbabwe
Kenya
Palestinian Mandate/Israel
Suez
Iraq (military operations to support the leader put in place after WWI)
China (in the '20s, enforcing the treaties granting European access to and control of parts of China)
Iceland (the Cod Wars)
Ireland (pre-independence of the south)
Yemen
Rhodesia/Zimbabwe
Kenya
Palestinian Mandate/Israel
Suez
Iraq (military operations to support the leader put in place after WWI)
China (in the '20s, enforcing the treaties granting European access to and control of parts of China)
Iceland (the Cod Wars)
existentialist
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Aden?
We apparently fought in the Latvian and Estonian wars of independence, and in the Afghan Civil War in 1928-9.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_1900–1944
I think the actions in Iraq might have been in the '30s and stuff in China was fairly ongoing and may have gone into the '30 as well. There may have been other small scale actions in the middle east as well during the '30s as Britain consolidated the new territories gained after WWI, but I'm not sure, and they might be too small to even count as a 'small war'.
dessiato
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Much to the disgust of my friends who served in Korea, the UK government doesn't classify Korea as a war. Apparently it was a policing action. This is why their war pensions count as income when considered for things like council tax benefits, and why they didn't get a service medal.
DaveCinzano
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How about the Boxer Rebellion?
Dhofar in the 60s/70s (or is that lumped in with Oman?)
IIRC Britain had a *tiny* war in Vietnam (SAS 'trainers'), and if that counts, then maybe scratch one up for Cambodia (ditto)?
Dhofar in the 60s/70s (or is that lumped in with Oman?)
IIRC Britain had a *tiny* war in Vietnam (SAS 'trainers'), and if that counts, then maybe scratch one up for Cambodia (ditto)?
DaveCinzano
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Would you classify Britain's involvement in the Russian Civil War as suitable under your terms of reference?
DaveCinzano
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And how about British military involvement via the likes of Glubb Pasha?
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Nope, same as our special forces chaps who detour from Belize to Colombia don't count, either.
skyscraper101
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The French invasion of the Minquiers Islands was one of the more lol ones.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/162190.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/162190.stm
DaveCinzano
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DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
India, China, America....probably others
Idris2002
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British troops occupied Vietnam briefly in 1945, after the Japanese left and before the French arrived. I don't think they saw much action though, if any - this was when there were mutinies among the troops who'd been fighting for years at this point, and were damned if they'd do any more.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
That was a NATO action, so I don't think it does. I am no military expert however.
Hollis
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Pretty much anything where there's a guy in kaki getting killed - for the purposes of this thread. Undercover guys wouldn't be much good.
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Not officially. And not very well, either.
sihhi
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered
When the British were there in 1945, the Japanese hadn't left - the British re-armed some Japanese .
Confrontation against Indonesia 1963-66
lots against peasant uprisings throughout Africa in the interwar era.
Frontier Province throughout the interwar period including the 1930s.
Anguilla 1969 ? -- it was so one-sided there was no loss of life.
Greek Civil war 1944-1947.
Turkish Independence War.
Baku War 1920.
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