This is a list of wars involving the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its predecessor states.
Emirate of Diriyah (1744–1818)
editConflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result | Monarch |
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Ottoman-Saudi War (1811–1818) |
Defeat
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Emirate of Riyadh (1902–1913)
editConflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result | Monarch |
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First Saudi–Rashidi War (1903–1907) |
Victory
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Conquest of al-Hasa (1913) |
Victory
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Emirate of Nejd and Hasa (1913–1921)
editConflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result | Monarch |
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Second Saud-Rashidi War | Inconclusive, Saudi offensive halted | |||
Kuwait–Najd War (1919–1920) |
Defeat
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Sultanate of Nejd (1921–1926)
editConflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result | Monarch |
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Saudi Conquest of Hejaz (1924–1925) |
Victory
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Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (1932–present)
editReferences
edit- ^ Bidwell, Robin (1998). Dictionary Of Modern Arab History. Routledge. p. 437. ISBN 9780710305053.
- ^ References:
- Herzog, The War of Atonement, Little, Brown and Company, 1975. Forward
- Insight Team of the London Sunday Times, Yom Kippur War, Doubleday (publisher), 1974, p. 450
- Luttwak and Horowitz, The Israeli Army. Cambridge, MA, Abt Books, 1983
- Rabinovich, The Yom Kippur War, Schocken Books, 2004. p. 498
- Revisiting The Yom Kippur War, P.R. Kumaraswamy, pp. 1–2 ISBN 0313313024
- Johnson and Tierney, Failing To Win, Perception of Victory and Defeat in International Politics. p. 177
- Charles Liebman, The Myth of Defeat: The Memory of the Yom Kippur war in Israeli Society[permanent dead link] Middle Eastern Studies, Vol 29, No. 3, July 1993. Published by Frank Cass, London. p. 411.
- ^ Loyola, Mario (7 October 2013). "How We Used to Do It — American diplomacy in the". National Review. p. 1. Archived from the original on 5 December 2013. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
- ^ a b SM Saseen, The Taif Accord and Lebanon's Struggle to Regain its Sovereignty, p. 63.
- ^ "Somali piracy is down 90 per cent from last year". The Journal. 15 December 2013. Archived from the original on 16 January 2014. Retrieved 14 January 2014.
- ^ Zimmerman, Katherine L. Yemen's Pivotal Moment. Critical Threats Project of the American Enterprise Institute, 2014.
Further information
edit- Bowen, Wayne H. (2008). The History of Saudi Arabia. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press. p. 153. ISBN 978-0313340123. OCLC 166388162.
- "Wars involving Saudi Arabia". BBC.
External links
edit- CBC Digital Archives – The 1991 Gulf War
- Master Index of Desert Storm Oral History Interviews Archived 2010-12-31 at the Wayback Machine by the United States Army Center of Military History
- Bibliography of the Desert Shield and Desert Storm compiled by the United States Army Center of Military History
- Persian Gulf War
- 20th Anniversary of Desert Storm in Photos