World in Conflict, Revolutions and War

This thread will be somewhat pithy. I simply want to share a map of the numerous countries that are currently embroiled in one form of violent revolution or another, or happen to be engaged in war with an outside foreign power.

(also see: conflicthistory.com)

Libya:

• Timeline: Libya's uprising against Muammar Gaddafi (Reuters, Mar. 21 2011)
  
• Timeline of the 2011 Libyan civil war (Wikipedia, last-update: Apr. 23 2011)

Egypt:

• Timeline: Egypt's revolution (Aljazeera, Feb. 14 2011)
  
• Egypt: Revolution Restarted - April 1st protests live blog (Counterfire, Apr. 1 2011)
  
• Egypt News — Revolution and Aftermath (NY Times, Apr. 18 2011)

Iraq:

• A TIMELINE OF THE IRAQ WAR (Thinkprogress, 2010)

Israel:

• Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict (Wikipedia, last updated: Apr. 9 2011)
  
• 2006 Lebanon War (Wikipedia, last updated: Apr. 13 2011)
  
• Israel flotilla raid deals a blow to ties with Turkey (LA Times, May 31 2010)

Syria:

• Syr ia uprising: 'We will continue until the fall of the regime' (BBC, Apr 23 2011)
• Syrian uprising timeline (AFP, Apr. 21 2011)

Yemen:

• YEMEN: Timeline of 2011 protests (Yemen Times, Mar. 21 2011)
  
• Yemen conflict a fresh conundrum for Obama (National Post, Mar. 22 2011)
  
• Yemeni president to step down in 30 days (Marietta Daily Journal, Apr. 24 2011)

Iran:

• Iran Squelches Protest Attempt in Capital (NY Times, Feb. 20 2011)
  
• The Iranian Rebellion (Wall Street Journal, Jun. 15 2009)
  
• Timeline: Iran nuclear crisis (BBC, Sept. 24 2005)
  
• Iran Nuclear Timeline (IranNuclearWatch.blogspot, Aug. 1 2006)

Afghanistan-Pakistan:

• US War in Afghanistan (Council on Foreign Relations, last update: 2010)
  
• Afghanistan: 2001-2008 (Guardian, Apr. 8 2008)
  
• Timeline: Pakistan (BBC, Mar. 2 2011)

North-South Korea:

• North Korea shells South in fiercest attack in decades (LA Times, Nov. 23 2010)

Factoring in the financial fallout of 2007 to present and surveying the natural disasters in Haiti, Chile, Japan and elsewhere, helps put in context statements by the World Bank President that the world is "one shock away from a full-blown crisis." [1]

Keep your fingers crossed folks! We're not out of the woods yet ‒ not by a long shot.

This is great and systematic information.



Nice thread!


The world has surely entered into a deadly crisis.

Hmm why not mention Greece? Things are pretty tense over there.

reply to post by Claudius

I couldn't find any good high-level overviews of world conflicts. So I figured a graphical illustration would help us ATS'ers better grasp a sort of birds-eye view of things. Unfortunately it's not a pretty picture.

Though, now that I think about it, I should really add some details about the fighting along the Ivory Coast.

reply to post by anon102

Even though there have been protests, I haven't heard of any deaths. For the moment the problems are primarily financial. I'm sure given a month or two it'll get more ugly.

reply to post by Xtraeme

Wikipedia has a dated graphic of ongoing military conflicts from back in 2010 ...


en.wikipedia.org...

The dark blue are majors wars with 1000+ deaths per year and the lighter is "other conflicts."

reply to post by Xtraeme


Similar to what Roy Scheider said in JAWS...
We're gonna need a bigger map!
Yep but you seem to have it pretty well covered,...for now anyway.
Folks are losing faith in their leaders at a breakneck pace, we have just begun.

reply to post by g146541

Similar to what Roy Scheider said in JAWS...
We're gonna need a bigger map!

You were right.

Ivory Coast

• Timeline: Turmoil in Ivory Coast (Reuters, Apr. 11 2011)
  
• Critics Blast Obama for Neglecting Ivory Coast Civil War (CNN, Apr. 4 2011)

Good thread!

The funny part is if the world was not built on oil (plastic, fuel, lubricant, etc) this would be a non-issue.

Remove debt based economy from the equation and the house of cards will fall, people will come back in to balance and our current level of technological advancement can go to something other than fat pills, ED pills and iGadgets.

Peace