List of wars involving Papua New Guinea

This is a list of wars involving Papua New Guinea, German New Guinea or Territory of New Guinea.

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results	Casualties
Battle of Bita Paka (11 September 1914) Raising the Australian flag in Angoram, 16 December 1914.	Germany German New Guinea	Australia	Defeat	30 Melanese police killed, 10 wounded
Australian occupation of German New Guinea (September– October 1914) Australian Fleet entering Simpson Harbour in 1914.	German Empire   German New Guinea	Australia   Japan	Defeat	85 killed and 15 wounded
New Guinea Campaign (1942–1945) Australian forces attack Japanese positions near Buna.	Australia Papua New Guinea   United States   United Kingdom Netherlands	Empire of Japan	Victory	42,000 total [1]
Coconut War (August–September 1980)	Vanuatu   Papua New Guinea   Solomon Islands	Nagriamel rebels Support:   France Phoenix Foundation	Victory	?
Bougainville Civil War (1988–1998) Ambulances in Arawa, 1998 destroyed in conflict.	Papua New Guinea Buka Liberation Front Bougainville Resistance Force Supported by:   Australia   Indonesia [2]	Bougainville Interim Government (BIG) Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA) Supported by:   Solomon Islands   Fiji (alleged)	Military stalemate [3] Bougainville Peace Agreement Establishment of the Autonomous Bougainville Government Bougainville scheduled to be an independent country around 2027	300+ PNGDF soldiers killed Several thousand wounded

References

1. New Guinea: The US Army Campaigns of World War II. 8,500 prior to January 1943, 24,000 between January 1943 and April 1944, and 9,500 from April 1944 to the end of the war. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
2. Bohane, Ben (8 October 2019). "The Bougainville Referendum And Beyond". Lowy Institute.
3. Bahcheli, Tozun, Barry Bartmann, and Henry Srebrnik, eds. De facto states: the quest for sovereignty, p. 242. Routledge, 2004.