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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.

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1. AustralianRupert (talk · contribs)
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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 2002 Marib airstrike Advanced Tactical Fighter Air Combat Group RAAF Arrow (missile family) Bijeljina massacre 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 Ben Roberts-Smith 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 563rd Rescue Group 1991 Haitian coup d'état 1993 reviews of the British honours system 1995 São Tomé and Príncipe coup d'état 2002 Marib airstrike 2010 Marib airstrike 2012 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état 2013 Radda airstrike 1 May 2015 Jalisco attacks 2021 Jersey dispute Abdullah II of Jordan Advanced Tactical Fighter AgustaWestland Apache Air Combat Group RAAF Airport of the Pacific 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 Cuscatlán Battalion Cyborgs (film) 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) Dušan the Mighty (paramilitary) Erdut killings Ethnic cleansing in the Bosnian War 1992 European Community Monitor Mission helicopter shootdown 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 Indian Airlines Flight 814 2008 invasion of Anjouan Operation Jackal Adem Jashari Saprang Kalayanamitr Amrom Harry Katz Mark Kelly 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 May 1995 Pale air strikes 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 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine Soviet frigate Razumnyy Ben Roberts-Smith Clinton Romesha Russo-Georgian War Saborsko massacre Amrullah Saleh B. Chance Saltzman Sentient (intelligence analysis system) September 11 attacks Serbian Chetnik Movement (1990) Battle of Šibenik Arjan Singh Široka Kula massacre Boris Snetkov Edward Soriano Operation Southern Move SpaceX Spencer Stone 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) Terrorism Confinement Center Charles Thau Operation Tiger (1992) Trichy assault rifle Tupolev Tu-142 Operation Una United Nations Command–Rear United Nations Confidence Restoration Operation in Croatia United States Naval Sea Cadet Corps United States invasion of Afghanistan Vance plan Siege of Varaždin Barracks Velepromet camp 1991 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 20 AL 0 GA 141     B 1,310 BL 16 C 5,096 CL 50 Start 5,247 List 157 Stub 1,561     Total 13,393 Total 224 Other pages Category 662 Disambig 94 Draft 9 File 47 Portal 0 Project 3 Redirect 478 SIA 17 Template 193 User 0 Total 1,503 Unassessed 0 Statistics ω 61,250 Ω 4.498 category

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Cleanup needed

Cambodian–Thai border dispute • India–Pakistan border skirmishes (2014–2015) • Naxalite–Maoist insurgency • Islamist insurgency in Mozambique

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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

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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

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Did you know

• 01 Feb 2026 – Ukrainian Fight Drone Simulator (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Piotrus (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

• 07 Feb 2026 – Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip (disambiguation) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by An anonymous username, not my real name (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
• 04 Feb 2026 – James V. Fiorelli (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Ckfasdf (t · c); see discussion (6 participants)
• 20 Jan 2026 – Ayman Siam (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Dmartin969 (t · c); see discussion (6 participants; relisted)
• 28 Jan 2026 – Ismael Samid (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Ckfasdf (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 04 Feb 2026; see discussion (3 participants)

Proposed deletions

• 03 Feb 2026 – James V. Fiorelli (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Ckfasdf (t · c) was deproded by QazZAQ69 (t · c) (author) on 04 Feb 2026

Categories for discussion

• undated – Category:Attacks in the Gaza war (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed
• undated – Category:Impacts of the Gaza war (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed

Redirects for discussion

• 07 Feb 2026 – Hamas war (talk · edit · hist) →Gaza war was RfDed by LIrala (t · c); see discussion
• 05 Feb 2026 – Thalmor (talk · edit · hist) →Chinese Communist Party was RfDed by Lizardcreator (t · c); see discussion
• 24 Jan 2026 – Template:Israel–Hamas war infobox (talk · edit · hist) →Gaza war was RfDed by Duckmather (t · c)
• 24 Jan 2026 – Template:Gaza war infobox (talk · edit · hist) →Gaza war was RfDed by Duckmather (t · c)
• 19 Jan 2026 – Western alliance (talk · edit · hist) →NATO was RfDed by Shhhnotsoloud (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 28 Jan 2026 – Andrew Hastie (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by TarnishedPath (t · c); start discussion
• 07 Sep 2025 – 2009 United States attacks in Yemen (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Hsnkn (t · c); see discussion
• 22 May 2025 – Joe Kent (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by ElijahPepe (t · c); start discussion
• 06 May 2025 – Gordon Klingenschmitt (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Fourthords (t · c); start discussion

Requests for comments

• 19 Jan 2026 – Greenland crisis (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Doug Weller (t · c); see discussion
• 12 Jan 2026 – Yitzhak Rabin (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Feeglgeef (t · c); see discussion
• 10 Jan 2026 – Kursk campaign (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by TurboSuperA+ (t · c); see discussion

Peer reviews

• 16 Dec 2025 – 2002 Marib airstrike (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Hsnkn (t · c); see discussion

Requested moves

• 07 Feb 2026 – Anti-Palestinianism during the Gaza war (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Anti-Palestinian racism during the Gaza war by An anonymous username, not my real name (t · c); see discussion
• 05 Feb 2026 – US intervention in Syria (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to United States intervention in Syria by Manilano12 (t · c); see discussion
• 03 Feb 2026 – David Chichkan (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Davyd Chychkan by Grnrchst (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 15 Jan 2026 – Ukrainian desertion crisis (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Ukrainian conscription crisis by TurboSuperA+ (t · c); see discussion
• 17 Dec 2025 – 2024 Houthi drone attack on Israel (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to 2024 Israel-Houthi attacks by Longhornsg (t · c); see discussion
• 17 Dec 2025 – 20 July 2024 Israeli attack on Yemen (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to 2024 Israel-Houthi attacks by Longhornsg (t · c); see discussion
• 07 Dec 2025 – 2015 Zabadani cease-fire agreement (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Battle of Zabadani (2015) by Longhornsg (t · c); see discussion
• 23 Nov 2025 – Assassination of Hashem Safieddine (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Hashem Safieddine by Longhornsg (t · c); see discussion
• 28 Oct 2025 – Israeli incursions in Tulkarm (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Gaza war by Longhornsg (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 12 Jan 2026 – 2025 Hamas–Doghmush conflict (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by KashanAbbas (t · c); see discussion
• 03 Jul 2025 – Timeline of the Red Sea crisis (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 80.41.152.120 (t · c); see discussion
• 23 Dec 2023 – History of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by PARAKANYAA (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

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