Home›Subcategories›ContemporarySubcategoriesContemporary40 of 200 entries in Wars. Click any to see everything it connects to.Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextWar and Military Atlas. "Contemporary." Accessed September 8, 2026. https://military.interactiveatlas.org/subcategories/war/contemporary.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextWar and Military Atlas. (n.d.). Contemporary. Retrieved September 8, 2026, from https://military.interactiveatlas.org/subcategories/war/contemporaryCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{warandmilitaryatlas-contemporary, author = {War and Military Atlas}, title = {Contemporary}, year = {2026}, url = {https://military.interactiveatlas.org/subcategories/war/contemporary}, note = {Accessed September 8, 2026} }Copy BibTeXReference and ClassificationDevelopingNamed wars fought from 1945 onward: the Cold War, post-colonial and post-Cold War era of the First Indochina War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Arab-Israeli wars and the Gulf War this atlas currently carries. Belongs here: a named war whose fighting began in 1945 or later. Does not belong here: a war that began before 1945 even if its fighting or its consequences ran past that year, which belongs to Modern instead, since placement follows the war own start-year.Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)BrowseCompareSelect all 40Algerian War of IndependenceContemporary1 linkAngolan Civil WarContemporary1 linkBosnian WarContemporary1 linkCambodian Civil WarContemporary1 linkCroatian War of IndependenceContemporary1 linkFalklands WarContemporary1 linkFirst Chechen WarContemporary1 linkFirst Congo WarContemporary1 linkFirst Indochina WarContemporary2 linksFirst Sudanese Civil WarContemporary1 linkGulf WarContemporary3 linksIndo-Pakistani War of 1947Contemporary1 linkIndo-Pakistani War of 1965Contemporary1 linkIndo-Pakistani War of 1971Contemporary1 linkIndo-Pakistani WarsContemporary1 linkIran-Iraq WarContemporary2 linksIraq WarContemporary3 linksKargil WarContemporary1 linkKorean WarContemporary4 linksKosovo WarContemporary1 linkLaotian Civil WarContemporary1 linkMozambican Civil WarContemporary1 linkNigerian Civil WarContemporary1 linkRusso-Georgian WarContemporary1 linkRusso-Ukrainian WarContemporary1 linkRwandan Civil WarContemporary1 linkSecond Chechen WarContemporary1 linkSecond Congo WarContemporary1 linkSecond Sudanese Civil WarContemporary1 linkSino-Indian WarContemporary1 linkSix-Day WarContemporary1 linkSlovenian War of IndependenceContemporary1 linkSoviet-Afghan WarContemporary1 linkSri Lankan Civil WarContemporary1 linkSyrian Civil WarContemporary1 linkVietnam WarContemporary9 linksWar in Afghanistan (2001-2021)Contemporary4 linksYemeni Civil WarContemporary1 linkYom Kippur WarContemporary1 linkYugoslav WarsContemporary1 linkComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year