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This is the project's main work list as we move towards Wikipedia 1.0. The articles are being evaluated according to the following criteria:

{{/FA}} Reserved exclusively for articles that have received "featured article" status after peer review.
{{/A-Class}} The article provides a well-written and complete description of the subject, as described in How to write a Great Article. It includes appropriate infoboxes and an appropriate series of headings to break up the article. It should have sufficient external references, using published books beyond internet websites. It should be at the stage where it could at least be considered for featured article status. It should be placed correctly in the category tree. It may have been selected as a "good article".
{{/B-Class}} The article is "almost there" but it may be missing one of the following: infoboxes, balance of content, external references, or an important section. Alternatively, the article may need extensive copyediting.
{{/Start}} The article has a good amount of content, but it is still weak in certain areas.
{{/Stub}} The article is either a very short article or a stub that will need a lot of work to bring it to A-Class level, although there may be a significant amount of material in the article.
{{/Unknown}} The article has not been evaluated yet.

Please note that the "Wars" and "Battles and campaigns" sections are listed in chronological order, while the others are in alphabetical order.

Core topics

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Article Status Remarks
Battle B-Class
Casus belli Stub
Civil war Start Needs major rewriting to actually add some historical detail.
Declaration of war Stub
History of warfare Stub
Home front Start
Military campaign Start
Military history Start Mainly lists.
Military strategy Start Needs major rewriting.
Military tactics Stub
Mobilization Stub
Prisoner of war Start No indication of the history of PoWs prior to WWII, some content about prisoner abuse and some crap (honestly I don't know what it's about, who are the Anarchist Black Cross Federation?).
Theater (warfare) Stub
War B-Class Listed on several "core topics" lists Wikipedia-wide; really the cornerstone article for much of the project
World war Start

Warfare by period

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Article Status Remarks
Prehistoric warfare Start
Ancient warfare B-Class
Medieval warfare B-Class May need branching (44k), no line citations.
Gunpowder warfare B-Class
Industrial warfare B-Class
Modern warfare Start

Warfare by type

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Article Status Remarks
Aerial warfare Start Needs more details on people behind aerial warfare - much more on WWI origins, WWII.
Airborne forces B-Class
Amphibious warfare B-Class Very close, needs a few more references. Some material amphibious warfare before the 19th Century would help too. Norwegian article is FA.
Arctic warfare Stub
Armoured warfare Start There's no real mention of De Gaulle, Guderian, or any of the big names in armored warfare.
Artillery B-Class History is now in front, with advanced missions farther back. It's very close, i think.
Asymmetric warfare A-Class I'm no expert, but: great writing, excellent links, loads of references, detailed, easy to read, very clear. I say A Class! But a two line introduction and only one line citation.
Attrition warfare Stub
Biological warfare Start
Blitzkrieg FA
Carpet bombing Stub
Cavalry Start Hebrew article is featured.
Chemical warfare FA
Close air support Stub
Conventional warfare Start It's limited, but not a stub, i feel. Could use expansion, or just more details.
Desert warfare Stub
Electronic warfare Stub
Fortification Start A bit more than a stub.
Ground warfare Stub
Guerrilla warfare B-Class
Infantry Start Hebrew article is featured.
Information warfare Start Copied from somewhere?
Invasion FA
Jungle warfare Start Needs to be wikified. Content mostly relates to British jungle warfare (although it doesn't mention the Chindits!) and Vietnam.
Maneuver warfare Stub
Mechanized warfare Stub
Mountain warfare Stub
Naval warfare B-Class Good content submitted by lots of different authors. Needs a good editor to give it more fluency and coherence. Currently has no references -- where do you start on such a big topic? Hebrew article is featured.
Network-centric warfare Stub
Nuclear warfare B-Class
Psychological warfare Start
Radiological warfare Stub
Siege FA
Ski warfare Stub
Space warfare Stub
Special forces Start An article on special forces that doesn't mention the SAS, weird.
Strategic bombing B-Class
Submarine warfare Start Needs details of submarine warfare in both world wars.
Tactical bombing Stub
Total war B-Class
Trench warfare FA
Unconventional warfare Stub
Urban warfare Start Very limited in scope, little mention of the history (no mention of Stalingrad in the article text). Seems to only cover recent examples. Norwegian article is featured.

Military history by nation

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Article Status Remarks
Military history of Afghanistan Stub
Military history of Argentina Stub
Military history of Australia Start No content pre-1861. Some areas, particularly WWII, are covered very lightly.
Military history of Britain Stub Little more than a list. Embarrassing stuff.
Military history of Canada FA
Military history of China Start
Military history of Croatia Stub
Military history of Denmark Stub Just a timeline.
Military history of France FA
Military history of Germany B-Class
Military history of Greece Stub
Military history of India Start
Military history of Iran Stub
Military history of Iraq Start Very list-heavy.
Military history of Japan Start
Military history of Korea Stub Just a list.
Military history of Mexico Start Current peer review, old peer review.
Military history of New Zealand Start
Military history of the Philippines Start
Military history of Poland Start List-heavy.
Military history of Portugal Stub
Military history of Puerto Rico FA
Military history of the Roman Empire Start
Military history of the Soviet Union FA
Military history of Spain Stub
Military history of Thailand Stub
Military history of the United States B-Class
Military history of the Republic of Venice Stub Just started.

Wars

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Article Status Remarks
Greco-Persian Wars Start French article is FA.
Peloponnesian War B-Class Former FA, German article is FA.
Corinthian War FA
Pyrrhic War Start
First Punic War B-Class
Mercenary War Start
Second Punic War B-Class
Third Punic War Start
Illyrian Wars Stub
Macedonian Wars Stub
First Macedonian War B-Class
Second Macedonian War Stub
Third Macedonian War Stub
Fourth Macedonian War Stub
First Servile War Stub
Second Servile War Stub
Third Servile War A-Class "Good article".
First Mithridatic War Start
Second Mithridatic War Stub
Third Mithridatic War Start
Gallic Wars Start
First Crusade FA
Crusade of 1101 Start
Genpei War Stub Mostly a list.
Third Crusade B-Class Needs expanded introduction and background. Needs references.
Mongol invasion of Rus B-Class Needs expanded introduction. Needs references.
Mongol invasion of Europe B-Class No images or line citations.
Mongol invasions of Japan B-Class Needs references.
Fourth Crusade B-Class
Albigensian Crusade Start Start? It obtained GA... I don't get it... -- Grafikm_fr (AutoGRAF) 20:28, 7 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hundred Years' War B-Class Needs cleanup. Esperanto article is FA.
Reconquista B-Class Portuguese article is FA.
Hussite Wars B-Class
Wars of the Roses B-Class Hebrew, Norwegian, and Swedish articles are FA.
Burgundian Wars Start
Onin War Start
Italian Wars Start
First Italian War Stub
Second Italian War Stub
War of the League of Cambrai FA
Italian War of 1521 Stub
War of the League of Cognac Start
Italian War of 1535 Stub
Italian War of 1542 Stub
Habsburg-Valois War Stub
French Wars of Religion Start
War of the Three Henrys Stub
Polish-Muscovite War (1605-1618) FA
Thirty Years' War B-Class Too long, needs cleanup. French, Icelandic, and Swedish articles are FA.
English Civil War B-Class Needs references, probably too long.
War of the Grand Alliance B-Class Needs references.
Great Turkish War Stub
War of the Spanish Succession FA
War of the Austrian Succession B-Class Primarily Britannica 1911 material, needs massive rewriting to a more modern style.
Seven Years' War Start List-heavy.
American Revolutionary War A-Class "Good article", needs short summary of naval theatre. According to Wikipedia:Most visited articles this is one of Wikipedia's most popular articles. 20 languages have versions of it and none of them are featured.
Napoleonic Wars B-Class Too long, needs cleanup. Spanish article is FA.
Peninsular War B-Class Needs to be expanded a little.
Greek War of Independence B-Class Needs references.
Crimean War B-Class
American Civil War B-Class Too long. Hebrew and Portuguese articles are FA.
Franco-Prussian War B-Class
Anglo-Zulu War B-Class Needs references.
Second Boer War B-Class
Russo-Japanese War B-Class
World War I FA Has been nominated several times for removal of featured status.
Polish-Soviet War FA
Cristero War FA
Chinese Civil War B-Class
Spanish Civil War B-Class List-heavy.
World War II A-Class Recently failed FAC Hebrew, Swedish, Norwegian, Vietnamese, and Japanese articles are FA.
Winter War B-Class Hebrew article is FA.
Continuation War B-Class Far too long.
Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 B-Class
Malayan Emergency Start
1948 Arab-Israeli War Start Currently protected from editing following an edit war. Hebrew article is FA.
Korean War B-Class Needs new infobox.
Suez Crisis B-Class
Algerian War of Independence Unknown
Vietnam War B-Class Regular neutrality disputes. Vietnamese article is FA.
Six-Day War B-Class Regular neutrality disputes.
War of Attrition B-Class
Yom Kippur War FA
Soviet war in Afghanistan B-Class
Iran-Iraq War A-Class "Good article", failed FAC Icelandic and Norwegian articles are FA.
Falklands War B-Class Needs new infobox. Spanish article is FA.
Algerian Civil War FA
Gulf War B-Class
Kargil War FA
War in Afghanistan (2001–present) B-Class Regular neutrality disputes.
2003 Invasion of Iraq B-Class Regular neutrality disputes. Arabic article is FA.

Battles and campaigns

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Article Status Remarks
Battle of Megiddo (15th century BC) Start
Battle of Kadesh B-Class
Battle of Karkar Start
Battle of Megiddo (609 BC) Stub
Battle of Carchemish Stub
Battle of Halys Stub
Battle of Pteria Stub
Battle of Thymbra Stub
Battle of Marathon B-Class Needs references. Slovenian(?) article is FA.
Battle of Thermopylae B-Class
Battle of Salamis B-Class
Sicilian Expedition B-Class German article is FA.
Battle of Leuctra Start
Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC) Stub
Battle of Gaugamela Start
Battle of Ipsus Stub
Battle of "The Saw" Start
Battle of Cannae FA
Battle of the Metaurus Stub
Battle of Zama Start
Battle of Pydna Start
Battle of Alesia FA
Battle of Utica (49 BC) Stub
Battle of Pharsalus Start
Battle of Actium Start
Battle of the Teutoburg Forest B-Class German article is FA.
Battle of Milvian Bridge Start
Battle of Adrianople B-Class Spanish article is FA.
Battle of Chalons A-Class Former GA, removed because "it is overlong, turgid, and completely omits Bury's view that the battle was trivial compared to Battle of the Nedao." - from talk page
Battle of Ticameron Start
Battle of Badr FA
Battle of Tours A-Class
Battle of Marj Ardebil Start
Battle of Pavia (773) Stub
Battle of Lechfeld Start
Battle of Hastings B-Class Needs references.
Battle of Manzikert Start
Siege of Jerusalem (1099) B-Class
Battle of Hattin B-Class Arabic article is FA.
Battle of Bouvines Start
Battle of Ain Jalut Start
Battle of Hakata Bay Start
Battle of Kouan Stub
Battle of Crécy Start
Battle of Aljubarrota Unknown Former FA
Battle of Ankara Stub
Battle of Agincourt B-Class Hebrew article is FA.
Siege of Orléans B-Class Needs citations. Otherwise near A-class.
Fall of Constantinople Start Portuguese article is FA.
Battle of Towton Start
Battle of Bosworth Field Start
Siege of Tenochtitlan B-Class
Battle of Fornovo B-Class
First Battle of Panipat Stub
Battle of Cerignola Stub
Battle of Agnadello Start
Battle of Ravenna (1512) Start
Battle of Novara (1513) Stub
Battle of Marignano Stub
Battle of Bicocca Stub
Battle of Pavia Start
Siege of Vienna B-Class Needs references.
Sack of Rome (1527) Start
Battle of Gavinana Stub
Battle of Cajamarca Start
Battle of Lepanto (1571) B-Class
Spanish Armada A-Class
Battle of Sekigahara B-Class Needs references.
Battle of Breitenfeld (1631) Start
Battle of Naseby Start
Battle of Rocroi Stub
Battle of the Dunes (1658) Start
Battle of Blenheim Stub
Battle of Ramillies Stub
Battle of Malplaquet Stub
Battle of Poltava Start
Battle of Culloden B-Class List-heavy.
Battle of Plassey B-Class
Battle of the Plains of Abraham B-Class
Battle of Trenton Start
Battle of Saratoga Start
Siege of Yorktown Start
Battle of Valmy Start
Battle of Rivoli Start
Battle of the Nile Start
Battle of Trafalgar A-Class Failed FAC Weak on references and details of the battle itself. Some poor writing in places. German article is FA.
Battle of Austerlitz FA
Battle of Jena-Auerstedt Start
Battle of Tippecanoe Start
Battle of Borodino Start
Battle of Leipzig Start
Battle of Waterloo B-Class Esperanto article is FA.
Battle of Ayacucho Stub
Battle of San Jacinto Start
Battle for Mexico City Start
Battle of Hampton Roads FA
Battle of Antietam B-Class
Battle of Gettysburg A-Class Introduction too short and not enough citations for GA.
Battle of Atlanta B-Class
Battle of Sedan Start
Battle of Manila Bay Stub
Rorke's Drift Stub
Battle of Adowa B-Class Needs illustrations or maps
Battle of Mukden Start
Battle of Tsushima B-Class
Western Front (World War I) FA
Battle of Mons Start
Battle of Gallipoli B-Class Former FAC
Battle of Jutland FA
Battle of Verdun B-Class German, Hebrew, and Dutch articles are FA.
Battle of the Somme (1916) FA
Brusilov Offensive Start
Passchendaele B-Class
Battle of Amiens Start I've been working on it, didn't realize this list existed. Needs filling out in some sections.
Battle of the Hindenburg Line Start Featured in DYK
Battle of Warsaw (1920) FA
Polish September Campaign FA
Second Battle of the Atlantic A-Class
Battle of Suomussalmi Start
Norwegian Campaign A-Class Needs an infobox. Peer reviewed
Battle of France B-Class Good information, needs more citation and some copy-editing.
Battle of Dunkirk B-Class
Battle of Britain B-Class Lacking any references, infobox needs a minor cleanup. Bit of work and it would be A class.
North African Campaign Start A little more than a stub, links to three constituent parts (W. Desert, Operation Torch & Tunisia). Little mention of significance of theatre and no mention issues regarding supplies and related Air and Naval campaigns.
Operation Barbarossa B-Class
Burma Campaign B-Class Plenty of information and well sectioned. Needs an infobox, more references and to be trimmed down a bit.
Attack on Pearl Harbor FA
Battle of Singapore B-Class
Battle of Midway B-Class Polish article is FA.
Battle of Guadalcanal B-Class
Second Battle of Kharkov Unknown
Battle of Stalingrad A-Class Failed FAC
Second Battle of El Alamein B-Class
Battle of Kohima Start
Battle of Imphal B-Class Could do with infobox, something detailing the aftermath of the battle and a picture or two.
Battle of Kursk B-Class
Battle of Normandy FA
Warsaw Uprising FA
Operation Market Garden A-Class
Battle of Leyte Gulf FA
Battle of the Bulge FA
Battle of Berlin B-Class
Battle of Okinawa B-Class
Operation Ten-Go A-Class
Operation Downfall FA
Battle of Inchon FA
Battle of Dien Bien Phu B-Class
Tet Offensive B-Class
Operation Opera Unknown

Military people

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Article Status Remarks
Alaric I B-Class Appears to mostly be 1911 EB material. Wonderfully written but there are issues with some facts and, regrettably, the tone.
Alexander the Great B-Class Needs some cleanup. Featured in Norwegian, Finnish, and Slovak.
Attila the Hun FA
Belisarius B-Class
Julius Caesar A-Class Former FA Finnish and Hebrew articles are FA.
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough B-Class Needs references.
Oliver Cromwell B-Class
Cyrus the Great Unknown
Louis Nicolas Davout Start
Karl Dönitz FA
Giulio Douhet Start
Ferdinand Foch Start
Frederick II of Prussia Start Quite short for such a major figure.
Võ Nguyên Giáp Start Surprisingly little on the US-Vietnam war.
Genghis Khan B-Class Neutrality disputes.
Husein Gradaščević FA
Ulysses S. Grant B-Class
Heinz Guderian Start
Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden Start Fairly short.
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig Start
William Halsey, Jr. Start
Hannibal Start Needs major cleanup.
Paul von Hindenburg B-Class
Joan of Arc FA
Kublai Khan Start Very short.
T. E. Lawrence B-Class
Robert E. Lee B-Class Neutrality disputes.
Erich Ludendorff Stub
Douglas MacArthur Unknown
Erich von Manstein A-Class Former FA
Manuel I Comnenus FA
Charles Martel B-Class
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder Stub
Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein B-Class
Napoleon I of France B-Class Former FA. Suffers from shortage of line citations and pro-Napoleon, pro-France POV. FA in Spanish, French, Italian, Hebrew, Norwegian, and Thai.
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson FA Promoted to FA with only two votes, in the days before citations were required. Someone may want to shore it up with some scholarship, or it may be demoted in the future.
Oda Nobunaga Unknown
Richard O'Connor FA
George S. Patton B-Class Polish article is FA.
Arthur Ernest Percival FA
John J. Pershing B-Class List-heavy.
Pyrrhus of Epirus Unknown
Richard I of England A-Class Hebrew article is featured.
Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts Start
Erwin Rommel B-Class Portuguese article is featured.
Saladin B-Class
Sargon of Akkad Start
Scipio Africanus Major Unknown
Shaka B-Class
William Tecumseh Sherman FA
Takeda Shingen B-Class Needs some cleanup.
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim B-Class
Raymond A. Spruance Start
Subutai Start
Alexander Suvorov Start
Thrasybulus FA
Timur B-Class
Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne Start Mainly EB1911 text.
Albrecht von Wallenstein Start
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington A-Class Recently failed FAC
William Westmoreland Start Vietnam section is very limited.
Isoroku Yamamoto B-Class
Georgy Zhukov B-Class
Jan Zizka Unknown

Military structures

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Article Status Remarks
Atlantic Wall Start
Caerphilly Castle Start
Castel Sant'Angelo Start
Castello Sforzesco Stub
Colditz Castle FA
Fort Eben-Emael Stub
Gothic Line Stub
Great Wall of China Start
Hadrian's Wall Start
Krak des Chevaliers Stub
Maginot Line Start
Mannerheim Line Stub
Moscow Kremlin Stub
Osaka Castle Stub
Siegfried Line Start
Walls of Constantinople Stub

Military units

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Article Status Remarks
Afrika Korps Start
French Foreign Legion B-Class
Grande Armée B-Class
Honourable Artillery Company Stub History section needs major expansion. Article also needs images, references, etc.
Imperial Guard Stub
Imperial Japanese Navy FA
Janissaries Start
The King's Regiment (Liverpool) Unknown
Lord's Resistance Army FA
Luftwaffe A-Class
Persian Immortals Stub
Praetorian Guard B-Class
Roman Legion A-Class
Rough Riders B-Class
Royal Air Force A-Class
Royal Navy A-Class
Swiss Guard Start
United States Army Special Forces Start
United States Marine Corps A-Class
Waffen-SS B-Class

Weaponry

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Article Status Remarks
Bomber Stub
English longbow B-Class
Fighter aircraft B-Class
Katana B-Class Failed FAC. German and Japanese articles are FA.
S-mine FA
Submarine A-Class Former FA
Tank FA
War elephant FA
Warship B-Class

Other

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Article Status Remarks
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Start An important organization to many nations, resposable for "universality of treatment in death" for commonwelt war dead from WWI and WWII, now maintains various war cemitaries and war memorials around the world.
Enigma machine FA
Knight Unknown Requires clarification
Sergeant Stubby Start
Poison gas in World War I FA
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima FA
Reservist Stub Very limited, has {{globalize}} tag as of March 2006.
Shock troops Start Decent amount of material, but largely insubstantiated and lacking in reliable references