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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 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 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 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) 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 1,142 BL 13 C 4,700 CL 40 Start 4,609 List 141 Stub 1,466     Total 12,071 Total 195 Other pages Category 422 Disambig 0 Draft 7 File 34 Portal 0 Project 1 Redirect 148 SIA 11 Template 135 User 0 Total 758 Unassessed 0 Statistics ω 55,227 Ω 4.502 category

Open tasks

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...to referencing and citation (6,171) • ...to coverage and accuracy (6,021) • ...to structure (1,090) • ...to grammar (267) • ...to supporting materials (1,098)

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

Add an article here!

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

Did you know

• 01 Nov 2024 – Tel al-Sultan attack (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Personisinsterest (t · c); see discussion

Redirects for discussion

• 25 Dec 2024 – 2024 South Korean Christmas coup attempt (talk · edit · hist) →2024 South Korean martial law crisis was RfDed by Rusalkii (t · c); see discussion
• 10 Dec 2024 – Child solider (talk · edit · hist) →Children in the military was RfDed by Sonic678 (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
• 19 Dec 2024 – 2012 Unity Day parade rehearsal bombing (talk · edit · hist) GA nominated by Trumpetrep (t · c) was not promoted by Abo Yemen (t · c), see discussion

Good article reassessments

• 25 Dec 2024 – Mikhail Gorbachev (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment by Sangsangaplaz (t · c); see discussion

Requests for comments

• 27 Dec 2024 – Abdel Fattah el-Sisi (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Firecat93 (t · c); see discussion
• 24 Dec 2024 – September 11 attacks (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Chronus (t · c); see discussion
• 10 Dec 2024 – Second Nagorno-Karabakh War (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Cinderella157 (t · c); see discussion
• 09 Dec 2024 – Syrian civil war (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by 207.96.32.81 (t · c); see discussion

Requested moves

• 30 Dec 2024 – Israel–Hamas war (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Israel–Gaza war by Ecpiandy (t · c); see discussion
• 29 Dec 2024 – Shahed 131 (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to HESA Shahed 131 by MarkiPoli (t · c); see discussion
• 29 Dec 2024 – Armenian-occupied territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Occupied territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh by Bunnypranav (t · c); see discussion
• 29 Dec 2024 – Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmishes (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Afghanistan–Pakistan border conflicts by 94.246.147.217 (t · c); see discussion
• 27 Dec 2024 – 2024 South Korean martial law crisis (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to 2024–25 South Korean martial law crisis by Queen of Hearts (t · c); see discussion
• 27 Dec 2024 – Western Syria clashes (December 2024–present) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to December 2024 Ba'athist insurgency in Syria by 178.81.55.110 (t · c); see discussion
• 26 Dec 2024 – Operation Tselilei HaKerem (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to 2024 Sana'a International Airport strike by Mason7512 (t · c); see discussion
• 26 Dec 2024 – Minister of Defense (Timor-Leste) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Minister of Defence (Timor-Leste) by Kenneth Kho (t · c); see discussion
• 25 Dec 2024 – 2024 Kursk offensive (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Kursk offensive (2024–present) by Andre Farfan (t · c); see discussion
• 25 Dec 2024 – 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Israeli invasion of Lebanon (2024–present) by Andre Farfan (t · c); see discussion

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Articles to be merged

• 27 Nov 2024 – Israeli retaliation leak (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to October 2024 Israeli strikes on Iran by AtomCrusher (t · c); see discussion
• 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
• 21 May 2024 – Battle of Lebedyn (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Northern Ukraine campaign by SaintPaulOfTarsus (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 29 Dec 2024 – Sudanese civil war (2023–present) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Salmoonlight (t · c); see discussion
• 19 Dec 2024 – Popular Revolutionary Army (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by HuntersHistory (t · c); see discussion
• 11 Dec 2024 – 2024 South Korean martial law crisis (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Johnson.Xia (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 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

Articles for creation

• 31 Jul 2024 – Draft:Sde Teiman detention camp riots (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by मल्ल (t · c)

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