A War Every Decade?
I know that if you want to find patterns in history then you can, and there are many conflicts I have not listed here, but still, it is interesting to note what looks like a trend here...
1948 Nakba and first Israeli-Arab war
1956 Suez Crisis between Egypt and Britain, France and Israel
1967 Israeli-Arab war
1975 Lebanese Civil War
1980 Iran-Iraq War - First Gulf War
1982 Israeli Invasion of Lebanon
1991 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait - Second Gulf War
2003 American invasion of Iraq - Third Gulf War
201? TBA.....
It appears we are overdue for another large scale conflict.
5 comments:
You forgot 1973.
Of course, how could I have forgotten such a great victory?
[Sarcasm]
I wasn't implying it was a great victory. Just like the rest of the wars you mentioned were not victories at all. I just noticed that you skipped it.
What about the war between Egypy and Yemen in the 60's?
Or the skirmish between Libya and Egypt?
Sudan?
Algeria?
Nour,
I was going to put it on but didn't for some reason or other.
Idit,
Yes there was plenty else going on, but I don't think many people would say they were as large in profile and media attention as the ones I mentioned were. That is debatable, of course, and you are free to disagree.
All the best.
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