List of wars involving Venezuela

This article is a list of military conflicts in which Venezuela took part spanning from 1810 to the present.

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results
Venezuelan War of Independence (1810–1823)	New Granada Venezuela Gran Colombia Haiti	Spain	Victory Independence of Venezuela Formation of Gran Colombia
Federal War (1859–1863)	Conservative Government	Federalists	Federalist victory Establishment of a Federalist government
Venezuelan crisis (1902–1903)	Venezuela	United Kingdom German Empire Italy	Compromise Venezuelan debt dispute resolved
Dutch–Venezuelan crisis (1908)	Venezuela	Netherlands	Defeat HNLMS Gelderland captures Venezuelan gunboats Alexis and 23 de Mayo Dutch blockade of Venezuela's coast
World War II (Unofficial: 1942–1945; officially in 1945)	Soviet Union United States British Empire South Africa Australia Canada New Zealand India France Poland Yugoslavia Greece Denmark Norway Netherlands Belgium Luxembourg Czechoslovakia Venezuela	Germany Italy Hungary Romania	Victory Collapse of Nazi Germany Creation of the United Nations Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as superpowers Beginning of the Cold War
Machurucuto incident (1967)	Venezuelan Government	Cuba Venezuelan rebels	Government Victory Invaders killed or captured Relations with Cuba severed
1992 Venezuelan coup d'état attempts (1992)	Venezuelan Government	MBR-200	Government Victory Hugo Chávez arrested and later released
Operation Gideon (2020)	Venezuela	Silvercorp USA	Victory Plot foiled by local fishermen Government begins Bolivarian Shield military response 99 arrest warrants issued by the Maduro administration, including for Jordan Goudreau, J.J. Rendón and Sergio Vergara, on 8 May