"Little Wars" Globe - Longview, TX
Posted by: WalksfarTX
N 32° 30.084 W 094° 43.333
15S E 338209 N 3597320
Globe is in Veteran Plaza. It was created and donated by the welding class at Kilgore College.
Waymark Code: WM107B3
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 03/13/2019
Views: 5
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 warAfter 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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