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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.

Participants

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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 Air Combat Group RAAF Arrow (missile family) 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 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 2012 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état 1 May 2015 Jalisco attacks 2021 Jersey dispute Abdullah II of Jordan AgustaWestland Apache Air Combat Group RAAF Arrow (missile family) Sarah Ashton-Cirillo Baćin massacre Bakassi conflict Jonathon Band Battle of the Barracks Battle of Gospić Battle of Šibenik Siege of Bjelovar Barracks Bloody Thursday (Bahrain) Bombing of the Banski Dvori 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 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) Erdut killings Ethnic cleansing in the Bosnian War 1992 European Community Monitor Mission helicopter downing 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 2008 invasion of Anjouan Operation Jackal Adem Jashari Saprang Kalayanamitr 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 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 Clinton Romesha Russo-Georgian War Saborsko massacre Amrullah Saleh B. Chance Saltzman September 11 attacks 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) Operation Tiger (1992) 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 16 AL 0 GA 120     B 1,123 BL 12 C 4,652 CL 40 Start 4,569 List 140 Stub 1,456     Total 11,954 Total 193 Other pages Category 614 Disambig 100 Draft 9 File 37 Portal 0 Project 2 Redirect 279 SIA 11 Template 199 User 0 Total 1,251 Unassessed 0 Statistics ω 54,710 Ω 4.504 category

Open tasks

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Popular pages

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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...

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Pro-Indonesia militia • 2011 India–Pakistan border skirmish

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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

Did you know

• 10 Nov 2024 – Kim Kuk-song (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Dumelow (t · c); see discussion
• 01 Nov 2024 – Tel al-Sultan attack (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Personisinsterest (t · c); see discussion
• 28 Oct 2024 – Taurus 09 (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Dumelow (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

• 17 Nov 2024 – Yugoslav September Offensive (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Peja mapping (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
• 11 Nov 2024 – 2023–2024 Gaza Strip preterm births (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Originalcola (t · c); see discussion (14 participants; relisted)
• 08 Nov 2024 – 2024 New Way Cargo Airlines Ilyushin Il-76 shootdown (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Lolzer3000 (t · c); see discussion (10 participants; relisted)

Redirects for discussion

• 08 Oct 2024 – 2001 terrorist attacks (talk · edit · hist) →September 11 attacks was RfDed by SeaHaircutSoilReplace (t · c); see discussion
• 07 Oct 2024 – 2001 attacks (talk · edit · hist) →September 11 attacks was RfDed by SeaHaircutSoilReplace (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 24 Jul 2024 – Dabney Coleman (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Daniel Quinlan (t · c); start discussion

Requests for comments

• 15 Nov 2024 – Russian invasion of Ukraine (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Slatersteven (t · c); see discussion
• 09 Nov 2024 – Hamas (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Smallangryplanet (t · c); see discussion
• 04 Nov 2024 – Somali Civil War (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Zabezt (t · c); see discussion
• 30 Oct 2024 – Nagorno-Karabakh conflict (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Pithon314 (t · c); see discussion
• 29 Oct 2024 – Al-Ahli Arab Hospital explosion (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by BilledMammal (t · c); see discussion

Peer reviews

• 17 Aug 2024 – Rwandan genocide (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Randomstaplers (t · c); see discussion

Requested moves

• 19 Nov 2024 – Peruvian Civil War of 1980–2000 (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Peruvian conflict by Charles Essie (t · c); see discussion
• 18 Nov 2024 – Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Israel–Hamas war (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to West Bank conflict (2023–present) by Chicdat (t · c); see discussion
• 13 Nov 2024 – Second battle of Khan Yunis (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Second Battle of Khan Yunis by BarrelProof (t · c); see discussion
• 13 Nov 2024 – Third battle of Khan Yunis (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Third Battle of Khan Yunis by BarrelProof (t · c); see discussion
• 03 Nov 2024 – Tel al-Sultan attack (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved somewhere else by Personisinsterest (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 05 Nov 2024 – Israel–Hamas war (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Middle Eastern crisis (2023–present) by CommunityNotesContributor (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
• 27 Sep 2024 – Hafiz Gul Bahadur Group (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Hafiz Gul Bahadur by Guessitsavis (t · c); see discussion
• 06 Sep 2024 – Daniel Coburn (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Ilario Pantano by Lenny Marks (t · c); see discussion
• 16 Aug 2024 – November 2019 Israeli missile strikes in Syria (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war by Longhornsg (t · c); see discussion
• 21 May 2024 – Battle of Enerhodar (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Southern Ukraine campaign by SaintPaulOfTarsus (t · c); see discussion
• 21 May 2024 – Battle of Lebedyn (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Northern Ukraine campaign by SaintPaulOfTarsus (t · c); see discussion
• 24 Apr 2024 – Kargil Air War (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Kargil War by User4edits (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 10 Nov 2024 – Russian invasion of Ukraine (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Piotrus (t · c); see discussion
• 01 Nov 2024 – Israel–Hamas war (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by CommunityNotesContributor (t · c); see discussion
• 21 Oct 2024 – Red Sea crisis (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Abo Yemen (t · c); see discussion
• 01 Sep 2024 – Maute group (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by HuntersHistory (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
• 12 Apr 2024 – Al-Shifa Hospital siege (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Dylanvt (t · c); see discussion
• 28 Jan 2024 – Belarusian and Russian partisan movement (2022–present) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Charles Essie (t · c); see discussion
• 16 Nov 2023 – War in Darfur (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by DervotNum4 (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