"Little Wars" Globe - Longview, TX - Earth Globes on Waymarking.com

The globe has numbers on it, each of which corresponds to a list on a nearby plaque.

For the soldiers who confront the enemy,
there is no difference between a
little war and a big war

After World War II, a dispute over Communism versus Democracygrew to include confrontations around the world. Conflicts of National Interest, or low Intensity Conflicts were nearly always conducted through surrogates in order to avoid a direct confrontation that could have led to nuclear war. Because of that underlying fear of all out global nuclear war, the public rarely heard these conflicts referred to as wars. Since the end of World War II to the turn of the century, there have been more than twenty "little wars" which have been virtually ignored, even though they cost us nearly six hundred American lives.

1.	Greek Civil War	1944-49
2.	Chinese Civil War	1945-50
3.	Berlin Blockade	1948-49
4.	USSR Cold War	1947-91
5.	Chinese Cold War	1950-72
6.	Lebanon	1958
7.	Bay of Pigs	1961
8.	Dominican Republic	1965-66
9.	USS Liberty	1967
10.	Iran	1980
11.	El Salvador Civil War	1980-92
12.	Beirut	1982-84
13.	Grenada	1983
14.	Libya	1986
15.	Panama	1989
16.	Somalia	1992-93
17.	Haiti	1994-95
18.	Colombia	1994
19.	Bosnia	1995-04
20.	Yugoslavia	1999

Stationary or rotating globe: Stationary Historical or current information: Historical Surface (elevation) relief: no Size: 5 ft

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