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[erudito]

12 myths of war.

Oz, the war-fighting nation: Of the eight major conflicts of the 20th and 21st centuries, Australia is the only country to have participated in every one of them. We have been in the Boer War, World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the two Gulf wars, and Afghanistan. And we didn’t start any of them … Actually, there are

Comments

[martinlemechant]

Interesting point about us getting involved in Wars. I reckons, out of the major wars that you mention we weren't involved in, only one of those had countries involved that weren't regional (Russian Civil war).

So I think its truthful to say, out of the Major conflicts that had a *level of international participation beyond regional powers*, we were involved in most of them, except the Russian Civil War. And I'm suprised we didn't try to get involved in that one somehow...probably too cold!

On top of that, we also particated in the boxer rebellion.
So we do appear to like a bit of biffo......

Good point

[erudito]

Yes, nice taxonomic distinction :)

Re: Good point

[martinlemechant]

Hey I'm a librarian. Taxonomies are my weapon of choice :-)

[basal_surge]

NZ has also had troops in all those wars, but AFAIK, we haven't submitted combat units to the two gulf wars.