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This is a list of
proxy wars. Countries are listed in alphabetical order. Their order is not an indication of their importance to the conflict.
Proxy wars are wars where one or more countries use other countries or organizations to oppose each other. The supporting country may support the proxy by providing money, supplies, advisers, or intelligence, or put some kind of pressure on the proxy's opponents, but does not commit notable levels of troops.
This list is intended to be a brief look at conflicts. Some countries may not have been involved in the war for the full duration; these are not marked to avoid cluttering the tables. You may need to look more closely into a conflict to get a more accurate grasp of it.
The term aggressor does not imply that party acted without provocation. It is used to organize the various sides of a conflict based on which side fired the first shots of the conflict, as opposed to something meaningless (
e.g. always putting
communist forces in the first column and the
anti-communist forces in the second).
In another effort to reduce table cluttering, some references which were checked but didn't include any information that wasn't provided by other resources are listed at the end, instead of using inline citations in the tables.
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Cousin, Tracy (November 1997).
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Cummins, Joseph (2009). History's Greatest Wars: The Epic Conflicts that Shaped the Modern World. Beverly, Massachusetts: Fair Winds Press.
ISBN978-1-59233-471-1.
The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica (18 July 2013).
"Greek Civil War". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Retrieved 7 July 2015. {{
cite web}}: |author= has generic name (
help)
The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica (10 November 2014).
"Spanish Civil War". Encylopaedia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Retrieved 1 July 2015. {{
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help)
English, June; Jones, Thomas (September 2003) [1998]. Encyclopedia of the United States At War. Scholastic Inc.
ISBN978-0-439-59229-1.