Topical Guide 767
Mark Dorset
War
Folly
What a Piece of Work I Am, Chapter 57:
“Actually,” she said, “c’est la guerre. There was, you remember, a war. Isn’t there always? Hasn’t there always been a war? If we’re not at war, then someone else is.”
Imperial War Museums, “Timeline Of 20th And 21st Century Wars”:
Conflict took place in every year of the 20th Century; the world was free from the violence caused by war for only very short periods of time. It has been estimated that 187 million people died as a result of war from 1900 to the present. The actual number is likely far higher.
The Polynational War Memorial, “Wars Since 1900” [adapted from a table]:
Second Boer war, 1899–1902; Philippine insurrection, 1899–1902; The War of a Thousand Days, 1899–1903; The Dervish State vs Ethiopia, Britain and Italy, 1899–1920; Sino-Russian War, 1900–1900; The Boxer Rebellion, 1900–1900; Uprisings in Colonial Angola, 1902–1904; Ilinden Uprising, 1903–1903; Second Yemen Rebellion, 1904–1904; Uruguay Civil War, 1904–1904; Russo-Japanese war, 1904–1905; Southwest African Revolt, 1904–1905; Dutch-Achinese War; 1904–1907; Maji Maji revolt, 1905–1906; Russian Revolution 1905, 1905–1906; Sokoto and UK vs Mahdist Revolt, 1906–1906; Third Central American war, 1906–1906; Zulu Rebellion, 1906–1906; 4th Central American war, 1907–1907; Romanian Peasant Revolt, 1907–1907; Morocco unrest, 1907–1908; Portugese war against Dembos, 1907–1910; Ma al-’Aynayn’s Anti-Colonial Insurgency, 1907–1910; Korean guerilla war against Japanese occupation, 1907–1910; Iranian Constitution War, 1908–1909; The second Rif War, 1909–1910; French Conquest of Wadai Sultanate, 1909–1911; Asir-Yemen Revolt, 1910–1911; Mexican Revolution, 1910–1920; Chinese Revolution;, 1911–1911; Cuba vs Partido Independiente de Color, 1911–1911; Italo-Turkish War, 1911–1912; First Sino-Tibetan War, 1911–1912; Paraguay Coups, 1911–1912; 1st Balkan War, 1912–1913; 2nd Balkan War, 1913–1913; Moro Rebellion, 1913–1913; Kuomintang vs Chinese Army, 1913–1913; Chinese Govt vs Bai Lang (White Wolf) Rebels, 1914–1914; World War I, 1914–1918; Southern China Revolt, 1915–1918; Russia-Turkestan, 1916–1917; Russian Revolution and Civil War, 1917–1922; Second Sino-Tibetan, 1918–1918; Finnish Civil War, 1918–1918; Estonian Liberation War, 1918–1920; Latvian Liberation, 1918–1920; Caco Revolt, 1918–1920; Sparticist Rising, 1919–1919; Hungarian–Romanian War of 1919, 1919–1919; Third Anglo-Afghan War, 1919–1919; Hungary Civil War, 1919–1920; Polish-Soviet War, 1919–1920; First British-Waziristan War, 1919–1920; Turkish War of Independence, 1919–1921; Second Greco Turkish War, 1919–1922; Nejd-Hejaz Wars, 1919–1925; Franco-Syrian war, 1920–1920; Lithuanian-Polish War, 1920–1920; First Chinese Warlord War, 1920–1920; Conquest of Mongolia, 1920–1921; Green Rebellion, 1920–1921; Iraq vs UK, 1920–1921; Blackshirts vs Leftists, 1920–1922; Third Rif War, 1920–1926; Senussi Orden vs Italy, 1920–1932; Kronstadt Rebellion, 1921–1921; Moplah Riots in Kerala, 1921–1922; Ireland freestaters vs Irregulars, 1921–1922; Soviet-Turkestan War, 1921–1923; Second Chinese Warlord War, 1922–1922; Honduras Coup, 1924–1924; Afghan rebels vs govt, 1924–1925; Third Chinese Warlord War, 1925–1926; Druze revolt, 1925–1927; Northern Expedition, 1926–1928; The Cristero War, 1926–1929; Kuomintang vs Gansu Rebels, 1928–1928; Second Afghan Anti-Reform War, 1928–1929; Sino-Soviet war, 1929–1929; Escobar Rebellion, 1929–1929; Ikhwan Revolt, 1929–1930; Kuomintang vs warlords, 1929–1930; The Yên Bái Uprising, 1930–1931; Saya San Rebellion, 1930–1932; Communists vs Koumintang, 1930–1935; Manchurian War, 1931–1933; Xinjiang Muslim Revolt, 1931–1934; Brazilian Revolt, 1932–1932; Aprista Revolt in Peru, 1932–1932; El Salvador, La Matanza, 1932–1932; Chaco War, 1932–1935; Spanish Socialists vs Govt, 1934–1934; Saudi-Yemeni War, 1934–1934; Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935–1936; Arab revolt in Mandatory Palestine, 1936–1939; Second British-Waziristan, 1936–1939; Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939; Third Sino-Japanese War, 1937–1941; Changkufeng Incident, 1938–1938; The battle of Khalkhin Gol, 1939–1939; The Winter War in Finland, 1939–1940; World War II, 1939–1945; Franco-Thai War, 1940–1941; Indonesian Independence, 1945–1946; Poland and Soviet Union vs Ukrainian Partisans, 1945–1947; Soviet Union vs Baltic Partisans (’’Forest Brethren’’), 1945–1951; Greece Civil War, 1946–1949; Chinese Civil War, 1946–1949; Philippines, Huk rebels vs Govt, 1946–1954; First Indochina War Comm. vs France, 1946–1954; Paraguayan Gvt vs Rebels, 1947–1947; Madagascar Rebellion, 1947–1947; Taiwanese revolt, 1947–1947; Indian Partition Communal Violence, 1947–1948; Telangana Rebellion and Indo-Hyderabad War, 1947–1948; Civil War in Mandatory Palestine, 1947–1948; Costa Rican Civil War, 1948–1948; First Kashmir War, 1948–1948; Yemeni Imamate War, 1948–1948; Arab-Israeli War, 1948–1949; Cheju Rebellion in South Korea, 1948–1949; Indian Govt vs Communist Rebels CPI, 1948–1951; Malayan Civil War, 1948–1957; La Violencia, 1948–1958; Burmese Govt vs Communist Guerillas, 1948–1994; Burmese Government vs Separatist Guerillas, 1948–2017; Korean War, 1949–1953; Taiwan Strait Crisis, 1949–1954; Israel vs Palestine, 1949–2017; Indonesian Govt vs Republic of South Moluccas, 1950–1950; Third Sino-Tibetan War, 1950–1950; Bolivian Revolution, 1952–1952; Tunisian war of Independence, 1953–1956; Moroccan War of Independence, 1953–1956; Cuban Revolution, 1953–1961; Indonesia vs PRRI, Permesta and Darul Islam, 1953–1961; Kenya, Mau-Mau vs UK, 1954–1956; Algerian War of Independece, 1954–1962; Vietnam Civil War, 1955–1964; Soviet Invasion of Hungary, 1956–1956; Sinai War, 1956–1956; Tibetan Uprising, 1956–1959; Cameroon War of Independence, 1957–1959; First Lebanese War, 1958–1958; 1959 Mosul uprising in Iraq, 1959–1959; Rwandan Social Revolution, 1959–1962; Laos Civil War, 1959–1973; Cameroonian Govt vs UPC, 1960–1961; Congo Crisis, 1960–1965; Bizerte Crisis, 1961–1961; First Kurdish–Iraqi War, 1961–1970; Angolan War of Independence, 1961–1975; Sino-Indian War, 1962–1962; North Yemen Civil War, 1962–1970; Indonesian annexation of West Papua, 1962–1978; First Rwanda Civil War, 1963–1964; Sudan Government vs Insurgents, 1963–1972; Guinea Bissau War of Independence, 1963–1973; Second Kashmir War, 1964–1971; Mozambique War of Independence, 1964–1974; Ethiopia vs Eritrean Separatists ELF/EPLF, 1964–1991; Colombia Govt vs Guerillas Farc and ELN, 1964–2016; Dominican Republic Coup, 1965–1965; Vietnam War, 1965–1975; Guatemalan Civil War, 1965–1995; Peruvian Gvt vs Sendero Luminoso and MRTA, 1965–2010; Namibia vs South Africa, 1966–1988; Iranian Govt vs KDPI, 1966–1996; Chad Civil War, 1966–2010; The Six Day War, 1967–1967; Nigerian Civil War, 1967–1970; Cambodian Civil War, 1967–1975; Chinese Cultural Revolution, 1967–1976; Rhodesian Government vs ZANU, ZAPU, PF, 1967–1979; Football War Honduras vs El Salvador, 1969–1969; Israel vs Egypt, 1969–1970; Philippine Government vs CPP Guerrilla, 1969–2017; Philippines Govt vs Mindanao Guerillas, 1970–2017; Bangladesh War, 1971–1971; Sri Lanka Govt vs JVP, 1971–1990; Northern Ireland, The Troubles, 1971–1998; Rebellion and killings in Burundi, 1972–1972; Chilean Military Coup, 1973–1973; Yom Kippur War, 1973–1973; Turko Cypriot War, 1974–1974; Balochistan Insurgency, 1974–1977; Argentina: Civil War and Dirty War, 1974–1977; Thai Govt vs CPT, 1974–1982; Western Sahara War, 1975–1989; Lebanese Civil War, 1975–1990; Indonesian Govt vs Fretilin–East Timor, 1975–1999; Angolan Gvt vs UNITA Guerilla, 1975–2002; […]
The catalog of human butchery and folly does not stop there, of course. You can see it brought nearly up to date at the Polynational War Memorial’s, “Wars Since 1900.” I ended it with 1975 because that is my best guess for the year in which this scene between Ariane and Peter would have taken place.
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