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Warfare Timeline

Enclosed is a timeline of all modern wars, including key milestones/problems.

Timeline

 

1853-1856 Crimean War

            Lack of supplies

            Lack of tactical change

1861-1865American Civil War

            Rifles

            Minnieball

            Lack of repeating rifles

            Lack of all supplies

            Lack of military tactical change

            Lack of political realization of industrial capacity

1866 Austrian-Prussia War

            Needle Gun

1879 Zulu War

1899 Second Anglo-Boer War

            Lack of Tactical Change

1899-1901 Boxer Rebellion

1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War

            Lack of Tactical Change

1911-1912 Italio-Turkish War

1914-1918 WWI

Machinegun Use

            Lack of Tactical Change        

            Tanks

            Aircraft

1939-1945 WWII

            Strategic bombing

            Tanks

            Assault Rifles

            True Close Air Support

1944-1989 Cold War

            Strategic Bombing

            Long range fighters

            Quality over Quantity

1948 First Israeli War

1950-Present Korean War

            Long Range Nuclear Bombers

Gunless Fighters

1954-1968 French Vietnam War

Lack of Tactical Change

Willingness to fight

1967 Six Day War

1968-1975 U.S. Vietnam War

            Willingness to fight

            PGM

            Lack of True CAS

1973 Israeli War

1978-1989 Soviet-Afghan War

1980-1988 Iraq-Iran War

1982 Falkland Island War

1984-1988 Tanker War

1991-Present Gulf War

            False security

            Lack of recon/intelligence

            Lack of armor

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