Category:Military and Warfare Tropes

""It is well that war is so terrible -- lest we should grow too fond of it.""

- Robert E. Lee

"“War is the father of us all, King of all. Some it makes gods, some it makes men, some it makes slaves, some free.”"

- Heraclitus

War stories are not quite as convention-laden as The Western or Commedia Dell'Arte, but it is a near thing. And The Army is frequently featured in such stories for some reason... Here are some things you may rely on.

Historical Wars
 * The Trojan War (approx. 1194-1184 BC)
 * Greco Persian Wars (499-450 BC)
 * Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC)
 * Macedonian Succession Wars (323BC-275BC)
 * Punic Wars (264-146 BC)
 * Maccabean Revolt (166BC-129BC)
 * Jewish Revolts (66-117)
 * The Crusades (1095-1291)
 * Turkish-European Wars (1071-1683)
 * Ottoman Rise(Early Ottoman conquests in late middle ages)
 * Fall of Constantinople(1453)
 * Battle of Lepanto(1571)
 * Siege of Vienna (1683)
 * European Reconquest(Austria&Russia vs Ottomans Seventeenth-Nineteenth centuries)
 * Hundred Years' War (1337-1453)
 * Wars of the Roses (1455-1485)
 * Italian Wars (1494-1559)
 * Eighty Years' War (1568-1648)
 * Dutch-Portuguese War (1602-1640)
 * Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)
 * English Civil War (1642-1649), a part of the Three Kingdoms Wars (1639-1653)
 * Hanover-Stuart Wars (Seventeenth and Eighteenth century).
 * Anglo-Dutch Wars (1652-1781)
 * Great Northern War (1700-1721)
 * War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714)
 * War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748)
 * Seven Years War (1754-1763)
 * The American Revolution (1775-1783)
 * Napoleonic Wars (1789-1815)
 * The War of 1812 (1812-1815)
 * War of the Confederation (1836-1839)
 * Mexican-American War (1846-1848)
 * Wars of Italian Independence (1848-1866)
 * Crimean War (1853–56)
 * Sepoy Rebellion (1857)
 * The American Civil War (1861-1865)
 * Chincha Islands War (1864-1866)
 * War of the Triple Alliance (1864-1870)
 * Austro Prussian War (1866)
 * Franco Prussian War (1870-1871)
 * Anglo-Zulu War (January–July 1879)
 * War of the Pacific (1879-1883)
 * First Sino Japanese War (1894-1895)
 * The River War (1881-1898)
 * Spanish–American War (1898)
 * Second Boer War (1899-1902)
 * Russo Japanese War (1904-1905)
 * Mexican Revolution (1910-1921)
 * World War One (1914-1918)
 * The Poppy
 * Russian Civil War (1917-1922)
 * Polish Soviet War (1919-1921)
 * Irish Revolution (War of Independence 1919-1921, Civil War 1922-1923)
 * Chinese Civil War (Initial campaigns 1927-1936, intermittent fighting 1941-1945, full-scale war 1946-1949.)
 * Chaco War (1932-1935)
 * Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
 * Second Sino-Japanese War (1937 - 1945)
 * World War II (1939-1945)
 * The Cold War: (c.1945-c.1991. Historians disagree on the precise date it started)
 * The Korean War (1950-1953 for the main fighting, although technically still ongoing and best described as a high tension Cold War in East Asia)
 * The Indochina Wars (1946-1975)
 * The Vietnam War (1959-1975)
 * Bay of Pigs Invasion (April 17-April 19, 1961)
 * Operation Urgent Fury (October–December 1983)
 * Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan (1979-1989)
 * Arab Israeli Conflict (1948-)
 * Indian Pakistani Wars
 * The Troubles (1968-1998)
 * The Football War (July 1969)
 * Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), also known as the Gulf War.
 * The Falklands War (or Malvinas War, to some) (2 April-20 June 1982)
 * Sri Lankan Civil War (1983-2009)
 * First Gulf War (1990-1991) also known as the Second Gulf War
 * The Yugoslav Wars (1991-2001)
 * Congo Wars (1996-2003)
 * The War on Terror (2001-, includes Afghanistan and Iraq wars)