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Welcome to the Post-Cold War task force, which covers the history of the Post–Cold War era. If you have any questions about articles or are generally seeking advice, you're encouraged to ask at the main military history talk page, or you can directly approach one of the task force participants below. The coordinators of the Military history WikiProject can be contacted here. Scope This task force covers the period of global military tension that existed between the end of the Cold War in 1990 until now. Any article related to this task force should be marked by adding Post-Cold-War-task-force=yes or Post-Cold-War=yes to the {{WPMILHIST}} project banner at the top of its talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax). This will automatically place it into Category:Post-Cold War task force articles.

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1. AustralianRupert (talk · contribs)
2. Catlemur (talk · contribs)
3. CPA-5 (talk · contribs)
4. Dodger67 (talk · contribs)
5. DPdH (talk · contribs)
6. Kges1901 (talk · contribs)
7. EngineeringEditor (talk · contribs)
8. Swatjester (talk · contribs)
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Article statistics

The table to the right shows the current article assessment statistics for this task force. A list of the top 500 most popular articles within our scope, as well as the number of page views each article received over the past month, can be found here. With most of our articles assessed as Stub- or Start-Class, there's a lot of work to be done. However, we also have a number of good, A-Class, and featured articles, which have been assessed as amongst the best Wikipedia has to offer. These article serve as a yardstick for what can be achieved and should be aimed for, and can provide ideas about how to write an article and what sources to consult; they are listed below: Featured articles Abu Nidal Yasser Arafat Operation Barras 1994 Black Hawk shootdown incident Boeing CH-47 Chinook in Australian service The Boys from Baghdad High British military intervention in the Sierra Leone Civil War Richard Dannatt The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes Killing of Muhammad al-Durrah INTERFET logistics M113 armoured personnel carriers in Australian service Michael Brown Okinawa assault incident Operation Infinite Reach Royal Gloucestershire Hussars Rwandan Civil War 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident Battle of Vukovar Featured lists Croatian Special Police order of battle in 1991–1995 A-Class articles 1st Armoured Division (United Kingdom) 11th Airborne Division 149th Armored Regiment Advanced Tactical Fighter Air Combat Group RAAF Arrow (missile family) Bijeljina massacre Camp Chapman attack Eileen Collins 1994 Fairchild Air Force Base B-52 crash 2008 invasion of Anjouan Operation Jackal M8 armored gun system Minefields in Croatia Ben Roberts-Smith Operation Storm United Nations Command–Rear United Nations Confidence Restoration Operation in Croatia Operation Winter '94 Good articles 1st Armoured Division (United Kingdom) 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (United States) 1st Croatian Guards Corps 3rd (Volunteer) Battalion, Cheshire Regiment 11th Airborne Division 47th Infantry Regiment (United States) 82nd Sustainment Brigade 116th Infantry Regiment (United States) 149th Armored Regiment 2002 Marib airstrike 2012 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état 1 May 2015 Jalisco attacks 2021 Jersey dispute Abdullah II of Jordan Advanced Tactical Fighter AgustaWestland Apache Air Combat Group RAAF Arrow (missile family) Sarah Ashton-Cirillo Baćin massacre Bakassi conflict Jonathon Band Bombing of the Banski Dvori Battle of the Barracks Battle of Gospić Siege of Bjelovar Barracks Bloody Thursday (Bahrain) Boricua Popular Army Battle of Borovo Selo Bosnian genocide denial Brioni Agreement British Army Bryan D. Brown Bucha massacre Pete Buttigieg Cambodian–Vietnamese War Carré d'As IV incident Bill Clinton Eileen Collins Operation Corridor 92 Croatian National Guard Croatian War of Independence Cyborgs (film) Dalj massacre Battle of the Dalmatian Channels Daruvar Agreement Dassault Rafale DeepStateMap.Live Mbaye Diagne The Doughnut Siege of Dubrovnik James Dutton (Royal Marines officer) Dušan the Mighty (paramilitary) Erdut killings Ethnic cleansing in the Bosnian War 1992 European Community Monitor Mission helicopter shootdown MS Europic Ferry 1993 Finchley Road bombings First Battery Armory Benjamin Freakley General Butt Naked Mikhail Gorbachev Gospić massacre Hero of the Russian Federation Homs Operation Hurricane-91 Indian Airlines Flight 814 2008 invasion of Anjouan Operation Jackal Adem Jashari Saprang Kalayanamitr Mark Kelly Siege of Kijevo Killing of Osama bin Laden Kosmos 1408 Battle of Kupres (1992) Battle of Kupres (1994) Battle of Kusonje Operation Labrador Battle of Logorište Lovas killings M8 armored gun system Ravish Malhotra Igor Mangushev Chelsea Manning Oriana Skylar Mastro May 1995 Pale air strikes Daniel Ménard Battle of the Miljevci Plateau Minefields in Croatia Operation Mistral 2 KRI Nanggala (402) NATO Operation Backstop Operation Golden Fleece Operation Sana Battle of Orašje Battle of Osijek Pakrac clash Plitvice Lakes incident Zdravko Ponoš Prelude to the Russian invasion of Ukraine Soviet frigate Razumnyy Ben Roberts-Smith Clinton Romesha Russo-Georgian War Saborsko massacre Amrullah Saleh B. Chance Saltzman Sentient (intelligence analysis system) September 11 attacks Battle of Šibenik Arjan Singh Široka Kula massacre Boris Snetkov Edward Soriano Operation Southern Move SpaceX Split Agreement 1991 protest in Split Operation Stinger Operation Storm Operation Summer '95 Operation Swath-10 Tel al-Sultan attack Territorial Air Force (New Zealand) Terrorism Confinement Center Operation Tiger (1992) Tupolev Tu-142 Operation Una United Nations Command–Rear United Nations Confidence Restoration Operation in Croatia United States invasion of Afghanistan Vance plan Siege of Varaždin Barracks Velepromet camp Voćin massacre Operation Vrbas '92 Vukovar massacre Operation Whirlwind William, Prince of Wales Operation Winter '94 1991 Yugoslav campaign in Croatia Z-4 Plan Battle of Zadar Zrinski Battalion

Post-Cold War task force assessment statistics Articles Lists FA 18 FL 1 A 19 AL 0 GA 129     B 1,237 BL 16 C 4,903 CL 44 Start 4,821 List 148 Stub 1,510     Total 12,637 Total 209 Other pages Category 0 Disambig 0 Draft 0 File 0 Portal 0 Project 0 Redirect 0 SIA 17 Template 0 User 0 Total 17 Unassessed 1 Statistics ω 57,729 Ω 4.494 category

Open tasks

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Popular pages

Full list

Cleanup needed

Cambodian–Thai border dispute • India–Pakistan border skirmishes (2014–2015) • Naxalite–Maoist insurgency • Islamist insurgency in Mozambique

Requested articles

Nsiloulou Militia • Wycliffe Matwakei Komol • Insurgency in Mizoram •

Expansion needed

Insurgency in Paraguay • Pro-Indonesia militia • Operation Tinombala • Al Sulayyil ballistic missile base • Al-Watah ballistic missile base • Republic of the Congo Civil War (1993–94) • Mount Elgon insurgency • Simón Bolívar Guerrilla Coordinating Board • Operation Guardian Retrieval • Operation al-Mizan • more...

Images needed

Pro-Indonesia militia • 2011 India–Pakistan border skirmish

Merging needed

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Citations needed

Colombian conflict • Guatemalan Civil War • Insurgency in Northeast India • Internal conflict in Peru • Chaambi Operations

Translation needed

es:Combate de Llochegua (21 de julio de 2017) • Operation Tinombala • id:Ali Kalora • id:Operasi Alfa 29 • id:Muhammad Basri • id:Operasi Camar Maleo • id:Syaiful Anwar • es:Tiroteo de Lima de 2017 • es:Atentado de Churcampa de 2017 • es:Emboscada de Anco (2018) • es:Combate de Vizcatán del Ene (2018) • es:Ataque al fuerte de Paramacay • es:Ocupación filipina de las islas del Mar de la China Meridional • es:Incidente del MV Morning Glory • es:Combate de Sabzak

Article alerts

Articles for deletion

• 13 Jul 2025 – 2025 Indian strikes on Myanmar (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Win Kyaw (t · c); see discussion (6 participants; relisted)
• 29 Jun 2025 – Siege of Al-Qarara (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by PARAKANYAA (t · c) was closed as no consensus by Liz (t · c) on 20 Jul 2025; see discussion (15 participants; relisted)

Proposed deletions

• 10 Jul 2025 – Battle of Radda (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Hsnkn (t · c) was deleted

Categories for discussion

• undated – Category:Attacks in the Gaza war (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed
• undated – Category:Impacts of the Gaza war (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed

Redirects for discussion

• 16 Jul 2025 – Huge Chaves (talk · edit · hist) →Hugo Chávez was RfDed by Rusalkii (t · c); see discussion
• 05 Jul 2025 – Islamic State – Green Brigade Province (talk · edit · hist) →Islamic State – Yemen Province was RfDed by Rusalkii (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 22 Jul 2025 – United States Naval Sea Cadet Corps (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Tokeamour (t · c); start discussion
• 20 Jul 2025 – 1991 Haitian coup d'état (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Spookyaki (t · c); see discussion
• 07 Jul 2025 – Trichy assault rifle (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Ominae (t · c); start discussion
• 28 Jun 2025 – Vinod Bhatia (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Matarisvan (t · c); see discussion
• 31 May 2025 – Airport of the Pacific (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by PizzaKing13 (t · c); start discussion
• 22 May 2025 – Joe Kent (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by ElijahPepe (t · c); start discussion
• 06 May 2025 – Gordon Klingenschmitt (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Fourthords (t · c); start discussion
• 20 Apr 2025 – Killing of Yahya Sinwar (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Skitash (t · c); see discussion
• 08 Apr 2025 – Cuscatlán Battalion (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by PizzaKing13 (t · c); start discussion
• 12 Feb 2025 – Pete Hegseth (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by ElijahPepe (t · c); start discussion

Requests for comments

• 20 Jun 2025 – 2025 India–Pakistan conflict (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by SheriffIsInTown (t · c); see discussion

Requested moves

• 19 Jul 2025 – Nicole Mitchell (meteorologist) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Nicole Mitchell (politician) by Jeffrey34555 (t · c); see discussion
• 18 Jul 2025 – Somali Civil War (2009–present) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Second Somali Civil War by QalasQalas (t · c); see discussion
• 03 Jul 2025 – Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy war by 9ninety (t · c); see discussion
• 01 Jul 2025 – June 2025 Los Angeles protests (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to 2025 Los Angeles protests by Sebbog13 (t · c); see discussion
• 22 Jun 2025 – Nuseirat rescue and massacre (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Nuseirat raid by Closetside (t · c); see discussion
• 14 Jul 2025 – Southern Syria clashes (July 2025–present) (talk · edit · hist) move request to July 2025 As Suwayda Offensive by Legion of Liberty (t · c) was not moved; see discussion
• 14 Jul 2025 – Espanola (battalion) (talk · edit · hist) move request to Espanola (brigade) by 94.246.147.217 (t · c) was moved to Espanola (brigade) (talk · edit · hist) by Jeffrey34555 (t · c) on 21 Jul 2025; see discussion
• 11 Jul 2025 – Atlit naval base (talk · edit · hist) move request to Atlit Naval base by IdanST (t · c) was not moved; see discussion
• 28 May 2025 – Fahmi al-Jarjawi School Massacre (talk · edit · hist) move request to Fahmi al-Jarjawi School attack by Closetside (t · c) was moved to Fahmi al-Jarjawi School attack (talk · edit · hist) by Extraordinary Writ (t · c) on 22 Jul 2025; see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 27 Jun 2025 – Spain–NATO 5% military spending conflict (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Agreement on 5% NATO defence spending by 2035 by Dajasj (t · c); see discussion
• 28 May 2025 – 2022 Tripoli clashes (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to 2023 Tripoli clashes by Thepharoah17 (t · c); see discussion
• 28 May 2025 – 2023 Tripoli clashes (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to 2022 Tripoli clashes by Thepharoah17 (t · c); see discussion
• 25 May 2025 – 2025 Machh bombing (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2025 by Bloxzge 025 (t · c); see discussion
• 11 May 2025 – Tal al-Sultan Ambush (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Tel al-Sultan refugee camp by Klbrain (t · c); see discussion
• 23 Apr 2025 – 2025 Omdurman market attack (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to RSF atrocities in Khartoum by FuzzyMagma (t · c); see discussion
• 05 Mar 2025 – 2023 Israeli–Palestinian prisoner exchange (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to 2023 Gaza war ceasefire by Yeshivish613 (t · c); see discussion
• 05 Oct 2024 – Use of human shields by Hamas (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Human shields in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict by Ïvana (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 03 Jul 2025 – Timeline of the Red Sea crisis (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 80.41.152.120 (t · c); see discussion
• 07 Jun 2025 – Cambodian–Thai border dispute (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Paul 012 (t · c); see discussion
• 15 Jul 2024 – Prince Andrew, Duke of York (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by AjaxSmack (t · c); see discussion
• 28 May 2023 – 8th Special Operations Squadron (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Felix QW (t · c); see discussion
• 10 Apr 2022 – History of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Knowledgekid87 (t · c); see discussion

Resources

European politics

• Ramet, Sabrina P., ed. (2010). Central and Southeast European Politics Since 1989. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-48750-4.

Peacekeeping

• "A regional perspective of UN peace operations in Southeast Asia". International Peacekeeping. 12 (1): 28–40. Spring 2005.
• James, Alan (Spring 1995). "Peacekeeping in the Post–Cold War Era". International Journal. 50 (2). doi:10.1177/002070209505000202.

General resources

• Jane's includes news stories on arms sales, etc.
• Publications of RUSI think tank provide useful analysis
• SATP Ongoing conflicts in Southeast Asia
• Jamestown Foundation provide useful analysis
• African Defence Review covers military activities in Africa