List of wars involving Cuba

This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Cuba .

  Cuba defeat

  Cuba victory

  Another result (e.g. a treaty or peace without a clear result, status quo ante bellum, result of civil or internal conflict, result unknown or indecisive)

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Result	President	Prime Minister
López's Expeditions (1850-1851)	Filibusters	Captaincy General of Cuba	Defeat Filibuster leaders executed	None	None
Ten Years' War (1868–1878)	Republic of Cuba in Arms Cuban Liberation Army Supported by: American, Puerto Rican, Dominican and Mexican volunteers [1]	Spanish Empire Captaincy General of Cuba	Defeat Pact of Zanjón
Little War (1879–1880)	Cuban Rebels	Spain	Defeat Rebel defeat
Cuban War of Independence (1895–1898)	Republic of Cuba in Arms Cuban Liberation Army Supported by: United States	Spanish Empire Captaincy General of Cuba	Victory American intervention Treaty of Paris United States governance of Cuba Cuban independence
Cuban Pacification (1906)	Conservatives	Liberals	Liberal victory Subsequent US occupation of Cuba	Tomás Estrada Palma
Negro Rebellion (1912)	Cuba United States	Cuban Partido Independiente de Color	Government victory Rebellion suppressed Dissolution of the Partido Independiente de Color (PIC)	José Miguel Gómez
World War I (1917–1918)	Allied Powers:   France   United Kingdom  and Empire: Australia Canada   Ceylon   Egypt Newfoundland New Zealand   India   South Africa Russia [a]   Italy (from 1915)   United States (from 1917)   Japan   Cuba and others ...	Central Powers:   Germany Austria-Hungary Ottoman Empire   Bulgaria (from 1915) and others ...	Victory Partition of the Ottoman Empire, dissolution of Austria-Hungary, transfer of German colonies and territories to other countries Formation of new countries in Europe and the Middle East, such as Poland, Yugoslavia, Weimar Germany, Soviet Russia and Soviet Union, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Turkey, Hejaz, and Yemen	Mario García Menocal
Sugar Intervention (1917–1922)	Conservatives United States	Liberals	Conservative victory Uprising quelled, US occupation of Cuba
World War II (1941–1945) [2]	Allies United States Soviet Union United Kingdom China France Poland Canada Australia New Zealand   India   South Africa   Yugoslavia   Greece Denmark Norway Netherlands Belgium Luxembourg   Czechoslovakia Brazil Mexico Panama Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua Dominican Republic Cuba	Axis   Germany   Japan   Italy   Hungary   Romania   Bulgaria Croatia Slovakia   Finland   Thailand   Manchukuo   Mengjiang	Victory Collapse of the German Reich Fall of Japanese and Italian Empires Creation of the United Nations Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as superpowers Beginning of the Cold War	Fulgencio Batista	Carlos Saladrigas Zayas
Cuban Revolution (1953–1959)	Cuba Cuban Constitutional Army	26th of July Movement Revolutionary Directorate of March 13th Second National Front of Escambray	Revolutionary victory Overthrow of Fulgencio Batista's government Establishment of a government led by Fidel Castro Beginning of the Escambray rebellion		Andrés Domingo
Escambray Rebellion (1959–1965)	Government of Cuba Supported by: Soviet Union	Insurgents: Anti-communists Batista loyalists Supported by: CIA (1959–1961)   Dominican Republic (1960) [3] Partido Auténtico [4]	Cuban government victory Elimination of all insurgents	Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado	Fidel Castro
Invasion of Panama [5] (1959)	Cuba	Panama	Defeat Expedition fails
Invasion of the Dominican Republic [6] (1959)	Cuba	Dominican Republic	Defeat Expedition fails
Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961)	Cuba	United States Cuban DRF	Victory Failure to topple Castro's government All surviving rebels captured Increased cooperation between Cuba and the Soviet Union
Invasion of Venezuela [7] (1963)	Cuba	Venezuela	Defeat Expedition fails
Sand War (1963–1964) [8]	Algeria Minor involvement: United Arab Republic [9] Cuba [10]	Morocco Minor involvement: France [11]	Military stalemate The closing of the border south of Figuig, Morocco/Béni Ounif, Algeria. Morocco abandoned its attempts to control Béchar and Tindouf after OAU mediation. Demilitarized zone established No territorial changes
Congo Crisis (1963-1965)	Kwilu and Simba rebels Supported by: Soviet Union China Cuba	Democratic Republic of the Congo United States Belgium Supported by: ONUC (1964)	Defeat Cuban withdrawal from the Congo The Congo established as an independent unitary state under the authoritarian presidency of Mobutu Sese Seko.
Guinea-Bissau War of Independence (1963–1974)	PAIGC Guinea (1970 only) Cuba	Portugal	Stalemate(political victory) [12] Independence of Guinea-Bissau
Bolivian Campaign (1966–1967)	ELN Cuba	Bolivia United States	Defeat Guerrillas defeated, Che Guevara executed
Machurucuto Incident (1967)	Cuba	Venezuela	Defeat Expedition fails
Yemenite War of 1972 (1972)	South Yemen Cuba	North Yemen	Indecisive No territorial changes
Yom Kippur War (1973)	Egypt Syria Expeditionary forces Saudi Arabia [13] Algeria [14] Jordan Libya Iraq Kuwait [15] Tunisia Morocco [16] Cuba North Korea [17] [18]	Israel	Defeat At the final ceasefire: Egyptian forces held 1,200 km2 (460 sq mi) on the eastern bank of the canal. [19] Israeli forces held 1,600 km2 (620 sq mi) on the western bank of the canal. [20] Israeli forces held 500 km2 (193 sq mi) of the Syrian Bashan region of the Golan Heights.
Operation Independence (1975-1977)	ERP Montoneros Cuba [21] [22] [23]	Argentina	Defeat
Angolan Civil War (1975–1991)	MPLA SWAPO SWANU Cuba MK	UNITA FNLA FLEC South Africa Zaire	Stalemate Three Powers Accord Independence of Namibia	Fidel Castro
Ethio-Somali War (1977–1978)	Ethiopia Cuba South Yemen Soviet Union	Somalia WSLF	Victory Somali withdrawal from the Ethio-Somali War
Ethiopian Civil War (1977–1991)	Ethiopia Cuba	EPRP TPLF MEISON ANDM EDUP	Defeat Fall of the Communist Mengistu government, installation of TPLF-led transitional government
Eritrean War of Independence (1977–1991)	Ethiopia Cuba South Yemen Soviet Union	ELF EPLF	Defeat Eritrean independence from Ethiopia
Invasion of Grenada (1983)	Grenada Cuba	United States Grenadian Opposition Barbados Jamaica Antigua and Barbuda Dominica Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Defeat American occupation of Grenada

Footnotes

1. Clodfelter 2017, p. 306.
2. Cuba declared war on the Axis powers in December 1941, being one of the first Latin American countries to do so. On 15 May 1943, the Cuban patrol boat CS-13 sank the German submarine U-176.
3. Clodfelter, Micheal (2017). Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and Other Figures, 1492–2015, 4th ed. McFarland. p. 637. ISBN   978-0786474707.
4. Brown (2017), Paragraph 6.
5. "Rubén Miró y la invasión de cubanos a Panamá" (in Spanish). Panama City: La Estrella de Panamá. April 22, 2010. Archived from the original on July 18, 2019. Retrieved September 14, 2018.
6. Lora, J. Armando. "Invasión" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on March 4, 2008. Retrieved September 14, 2018.
7. Flores, Victor (September 28, 2013). ""Los cubanos son los artífices del fraude electoral en Venezuela"". El País (in Spanish). Madrid: Ediciones El País. Retrieved September 14, 2018.
8. Gleijeses 2002, p. 44.
9. Ottaway 1970, p. 166.
10. Brian Latell (24 April 2012). Castro's Secrets: Cuban Intelligence, The CIA, and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy. St. Martin's Press. p. 164. ISBN   978-1-137-00001-9. In this instance, unlike several others, the Cubans did no fighting; Algeria concluded an armistice with the Moroccan king.
11. Nicole Grimaud (1 January 1984). La politique extérieure de l'Algérie (1962-1978). KARTHALA Editions. p. 198. ISBN   978-2-86537-111-2. L'armée française était en 1963 présente en Algérie et au Maroc. Le gouvernement français, officiellement neutre, comme le rappelle le Conseil des ministres du 25 octobre 1963, n'a pas pu empêcher que la coopération très étroite entre l'armée française et l'armée marocaine n'ait eu quelques répercussions sur le terrain. == The French Army was in 1963 present in Algeria and Morocco. The French government, officially neutral, as recalled by the Council of Ministers on October 25, 1963, could not prevent the very close cooperation between the French army and the Moroccan army from having some repercussions on the ground.
12. A Guerra - Colonial - do Ultramar - da Libertação, 2nd Season (Portugal 2007, director Joaquim Furtado, RTP)
13. O'Ballance (1979), pp. 201. sfnp error: no target: CITEREFO'Ballance1979 (help)
14. Shazly (2003), p. 278. sfnp error: no target: CITEREFShazly2003 (help)
15. Rabinovich (2004), pp. 464–465. sfnp error: no target: CITEREFRabinovich2004 (help)
16. Mahjoub Tobji (2006). Les officiers de Sa Majesté: Les dérives des généraux marocains 1956–2006 (in French). Fayard. p. 107. ISBN   978-2-213-63015-1.
17. Shazly (2003), pp. 83–84. sfnp error: no target: CITEREFShazly2003 (help)
18. Cenciotti, David. "Israeli F-4s Actually Fought North Korean MiGs During the Yom Kippur War". Business Insider.
19. Rabinovich (2004), p. 467. sfnp error: no target: CITEREFRabinovich2004 (help)
20. Morris (2011), p. 437. sfnp error: no target: CITEREFMorris2011 (help)
21. Enrique Díaz-Araujo. La guerrilla en sus libros. p. 98.
22. "Página/12 :: El país :: Gorriarán Merlo cuenta su versión" . Retrieved 11 May 2016.
23. "Página/12" . Retrieved 23 February 2015.

Bibliography

• Brown, Jonathan (2017). "The bandido counterrevolution in Cuba, 1959–1965". Nuevo Mundo Mundos Nuevos. doi: 10.4000/nuevomundo.71412 .
• Gleijeses, Piero (2002). Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington and Africa, 1959–1976. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN   978-0-807-82647-8.
• Ottaway, David (1970), Algeria: The Politics of a Socialist Revolution, Berkeley, California: University of California Press, ISBN   9780520016552

See also

• Military interventions of Cuba

Notes

1. The Russian Empire during 1914–1917, the Russian Republic during 1917. The Bolshevik government signed a separate peace with the Central Powers shortly after their armed seizure of power, resulting in a Central Powers victory on the Eastern Front of the war, and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic's defeat. However, this peace treaty was nullified by an Allied Powers victory on the Western Front, and the end of the war.