Conflicts Around the World: A Typology

1. Border Wars

2. Cold War Proxy Wars

3. Guerrilla Wars

4. Six Day War

5. Persian Gulf War

6. Soviet Afghan War

7. The Dirty War

8. Iran/ Iraq War

9. Korean War

10. Northern Ireland Conflict

11. Several of these armed conflicts fall into more than more than one typology.

12. Wars of Independence

13. Civil Wars

14. Biafran War

15. Cuban Revolution

16. Rwandan Genocide

17. Cambodian Civil War

18. Chinese Civil War

19. Salvadoran Civil War

20. Bangladesh War of Independence