Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Top 10 Shortest Wars

MOGUL ZAI SUPPLIES - U.S. troops talk with villagers during a visit to Mogul Zai, Zabul province, Afghanistan, Oct. 29, 2010. The U.S. troops are assigned to Provincial Reconstruction Team Zabul. Afghan police officers distributed humanitarian aid, which included winter supplies and well material, to the village. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Brian Ferguson

From Listverse:

Since Biblical times and before, man has been constantly fighting. It seems that never a year goes by without one war or another starting or finishing. Some of these wars take many years and have very high death tolls, but there have also been some extraordinarily short wars. This is a list of the ten shortest wars since 1800. I have not included wars that ended in ceasefire, wars of revolution or independence, or wars that occurred during the First or Second World Wars.

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