List of wars - List of wars before 1000 - List of wars 1000-1499 - List of wars 1500-1799 - List of wars 1800-1899 - List of wars 1900-1944 - List of wars 1945-1989 - List of wars 1990-2002- List of wars 2003-current - Ongoing wars
- 1945-1949 Chinese Civil War
- 1946-1954 First Indochina War
- 1947-1949 Indo-Pakistani War of 1947
- 1948-1949 First Arab-Israeli War
- 1948-1960 Malayan Emergency
- 1950-1953 Korean War
- 1952-1960 Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya
- 1954-1975 Second Indochina War
- 1954-1962 Algerian War of Independence
- 1955-1972 First Sudanese Civil War
- 1956 Suez Crisis (Second Arab-Israeli War)
- 1956-1959 Cuban Revolution
- 1957-1958 Ifni War
- 1960-1965 Congo Crisis
- 1960-1996 Guatemalan Civil War
- 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion (CIA-sponsored invasion attempt by Cuban Nationals)
- 1961-1975 Angolan War of Independence
- 1962-1963 Sino-Indian War
- 1962-1966 Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation
- 1962-1970 Yemen Civil War
- 1964-1975 Mozambique's War of Independence
- 1965 Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
- 1965-1996 Chad Civil War
- 1965-1966 Indonesian Civil War
- 1966-1988 Namibian War of Independence
- 1966-1979 Zimbabwean Second Chimurenga (Rhodesian Bush War)
- 1967 Six-Day War (Third Arab-Israeli War)
- 1967-1970 Nigerian Civil War
- 1968-1970 War of Attrition
- 1969 Football War
- 1969-1988 The Troubles in Northern Ireland
- 1971 The Bangladesh Liberation War that in turn initiated the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
- 1973 Yom Kippur War (Fourth Arab-Israeli War)
- 1974 Agacher Strip War
- 1974-1991 Ethiopian Civil War
- 1975-1989 Angolan Civil War
- 1975-1991 Lebanese Civil War
- 1975-1998 War of Indepence in East Timor
- 1977-1978 Ogaden War
- 1977-1991 Cambodian-Vietnamese War
- 1978-2005 The Aceh War
- 1978-1988 Ugandan Civil War
- 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War
- 1979-1992 El Salvador Civil War
- 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War
- 1981 Border war between Ecuador and Peru
- 1982 Falklands War
- 1982 Lebanon War
- 1982-1984 Mozambique's Civil War
- 1983 Invasion of Grenada
- 1983-2000 Civil War in Sri Lanka
- 1983-2005 Second Sudanese Civil War
- 1985 Christmas War between Mali and Burkina Faso
- 1989-1991 Mauritania-Senegal Border War
- 1989-1990 Operation Just Cause, United States invades Panama
- 1989-1997 Liberian Civil War