About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 291. Chapters: Irish Civil War, Second Boer War, The Troubles, Peninsular War, Irish War of Independence, Sri Lankan Civil War, 2011 Libyan civil war, Cuban intervention in Angola, Angolan Civil War, War in North-West Pakistan, Philippine-American War, Portuguese Colonial War, Guerrilla phase of the Second Chechen War, Provisional Irish Republican Army campaign 1969-1997, Colombian armed conflict, Algerian Civil War, Rhodesian Bush War, Salvadoran Civil War, History of Iraqi insurgency, Herero and Namaqua Genocide, Taliban insurgency, Eelam War IV, Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, Angolan War of Independence, Nepalese Civil War, Basque conflict, Yuma War, Operation Cyclone, Second Sudanese Civil War, Eastern Theater of Eelam War IV, Apache Wars, Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir, Internal conflict in Peru, Battle of Algiers, Arab Revolt, Invasion of Dagestan, Air Tigers, Deluge, Forage War, Mohave War, Mozambican Civil War, First Sudanese Civil War, Eelam War III, Rapparee, LTTE Black Tiger, United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan, Araguaia guerrilla, Tirah Campaign, Rolf Steiner, Bascom Affair, Uva Rebellion, Namibian War of Independence, Geneva Accords, Suriname Guerrilla War, Flying column, INTAF, Transvaal Civil War. Excerpt: The Sri Lankan Civil War was a conflict fought on the island of Sri Lanka. Beginning on June 23, 1983, there was an on-and-off insurgency against the government by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (the LTTE, also known as the Tamil Tigers and other few rebel groups), a separatist militant organization which fought to create an independent Tamil state named Tamil Eelam in the north and the east of the island. After a 26 year long military campaign, the Sri Lankan military defeated the Tamil Tigers in May 2009. For over 25 years, this civil war caused significant hardships for the po...
