Template talk:American conflicts
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This is a nice looking template, but shouldn't it be called "Military conflicts of the United States" or "Wars involving the United States" to make the scope more clear. As it stands I thought is was covering all wars in the Americas when I first saw it. Eluchil404 14:24, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
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- The list cannot have off-beat terms not in common use (like "Sixty Year War"), and cannot include trivial events. Keep to serious conflicts or this template is highly misleading. Rjensen 05:14, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
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- The Vietnam War was an international war rather than an "external conflict" as a number of nations were involved. 220.253.146.79 23:26, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
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- Shouldn't these conflicts be referred to by their more useful national, historical, and geographic names rather than US department of defense code names, which almost no one remembers?
[edit] Sections
I moved the Indian Wars to the external conflicts section, since they are by definition. Besides, I don't really get the difference between "external" and "international".
193.253.199.143 05:52, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
I second this confusion about the difference between "external" and "international" conflicts. Panama is another nation, isn't it? Wasn't that conflict thus international? 71.57.90.83 01:00, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Colombia
What about Colombia? the Colombian armed conflict is financed in part by the United States through the billion dollar worth Plan Colombia, should this be included in the template?--F3rn4nd0 (Roger - Out) 02:44, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Grossly lacking
Alright, either the heading has to be changed to something a bit more conservative than "conflicts involving the U.S.", or this Template is grossly lacking. The following are some omissions that jump to mind...
- Armed conflicts involving the United States (with direct U.S. Armed Forces involvement)
- 1801 First Barbary War
- 1815 Second Barbary War
- 1903 Panama Canal conflicts, Hay-Herran Treaty
- 1914 Tampico Affair
- 1916 Pancho Villa Expedition
- 1918 Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War [1]
- 1967 Six-Day War (U.S. attacked by Israel in USS Liberty incident)
- 1980 Operation Eagle Claw (Tehran embassy rescue attempt)
- 1981 [first] Gulf of Sidra incident (1981) (U.S. shot down two Libyan Su-22s)
- 1983 Beirut barracks bombing (Multinational Force in Lebanon|MNF)
- 1986 Operation El Dorado Canyon (Libyan Palace Bombing)
- 1989 [second] Gulf of Sidra incident (U.S. shot down two Libyan MiG-23s)
- 1993 Battle of Mogadishu (U.N.)
- 1998 Bombing of Afghanistan and Sudan (August 1998) (aspirin factory bombing)
- 1999 International Force for East Timor (U.N.)
- 1999 Kosovo War (NATO)
- Armed conflicts involving the United States (without direct U.S. Armed Forces involvement)
- 1913 La decena trágica / Henry Lane Wilson
- 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état
- 1957 Tibetan resistance (U.S. military aid [2][3])
- 1964 Plan LAZO (CIA military and financial aid to Colombia]]
- 1967 Six-Day War (U.S. military involvement disputed)
- 1973 Yom Kippur War (Arab-Israeli War) (military and financial aid)
- 1975 Indonesian invasion of East Timor (U.S. military aid)
- 1979 Soviet war in Afghanistan (Military training and financial aid to Mujahideen)
- 1979 Salvadoran Civil War (Military training and financial aid)
- 1982 Falkland Islands War (material assistance to U.K.)
- 1982 Israeli-Lebanese War (military and financial aid)
- 1986 Nicaraguan Contras (financial aid to anti-Sandinista campaign, Iran-Contra affair)
- 1995 Operation Storm (Croatia, covert military aid to the Bosnian Army)
- 2006 Israeli-Lebanese War (military and financial aid)
See also Military history of the United States and Covert U.S. regime change actions. - Eric (talk) 19:41, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
A proposal to replace the current American conflicts navbox:
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