Curated playlist
Wars involving Italy
- Crimean WarFewer than half of 80,000 Russian soldiers in the Crimean War survived, mostly from disease.
- Iraq WarThe Iraq War's main reason, weapons of mass destruction, turned out to be false.
- French Revolutionary WarsFrance ordered the first mass conscription in history on the 23rd of August 1793.
- War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)The war in Afghanistan lasted from 2001 to 2021, and it became the longest war in United States military history. It ran six months longer than the Vietnam War. A United States-led coalition launched it under the name Operation Enduring…
- Gulf WarA rounding error in a Patriot missile's computer let a Scud kill 28 US soldiers in Saudi Arabia.
- Boxer RebellionThe Boxer Rebellion, an anti-foreign uprising in North China between 1899 and 1901, rested on a belief that bullets could not kill its fighters. To convince new initiates, members fired guns loaded with blank rounds at one another. The…
- Anglo-Iraqi WarIn May 1941, a British flying school struck first against a besieging Iraqi army.
- Italian invasion of AlbaniaA Tintin comic borrowed its plot from Italy's 1939 invasion of Albania. Hergé felt "Syldavia is Albania."
- World War IIHistorians still disagree about the day World War II began. Most choose 1 September 1939, when Germany invaded Poland.
- World War IWorld War I began with two pistol shots in a Sarajevo street. Gavrilo Princip's shots killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
- War on terrorThe war on terror aimed at a tactic, not a country. The U.S. began it after the September 11 attacks.