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Thousand Days' War: 0.1–0.18 million [206] 1899–1902 Colombian Conservative Party vs. Colombian Liberal Party: Colombia Sri Lankan Civil War: 0.08–0.17 million [207] [208] 1983 [h] –2009 Sri Lankan government vs. Separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam: Sri Lanka Russo-Japanese War: 0.12–0.16 million [210] 1904–1905 Empire of ...
The Home Front Encyclopedia: United States, Britain, and Canada in World Wars I and II (3 vol 2006) Frank, Lisa Tendrich. An Encyclopedia of American Women at War: From the Home Front to the Battlefields (2013) Resch, John Phillips, and D'Ann Campbell eds. Americans at War: Society, Culture, and the Homefront (vol 3 2004)
The term "home front" covers the activities of the civilians in a nation at war. World War II was a total war; homeland military production became vital to both the Allied and Axis powers. Life on the home front during World War II was a significant part of the war effort for all participants and had a major impact on the outcome of the war.
Soviet-Japanese Border War (May 11, 1939 – September 16, 1939) Winter War (November 1939-March 1940) French-Thai War (September 1, 1940 – May 9, 1941) Ecuadorian–Peruvian War (July 5, 1941 – January 31, 1942) Northern Campaign (September 2, 1942 - December, 1944) Greek Civil War (December 3, 1944 – October 16, 1949)
Estimated total Soviet military war dead in 1941–45 on the Eastern Front (World War II) including missing in action, POWs and Soviet partisans range from 8.6 to 10.6 million. [306] There were an additional 127,000 war dead in 1939–40 during the Winter War with Finland. [325]
Expediency – War is a matter of expedients – von Moltke; Fog, friction, chance – War is characterized by fog, friction, and chance; Golden Bridge – To leave an opponent an opportunity to withdraw in order to not force them to act out of desperation – Sun Tzu; Iron Calculus of War – Resistance = Means x Will – Clausewitz
The Battle of the Dnieper was a military campaign that took place in 1943 on the Eastern Front of World War II.Being one of the largest operations of the war, it involved almost four million troops at one point and stretched over a 1,400 kilometres (870 mi) front.
Soviet gun crew in action at Odessa in 1941. The Southern Front was a front, a formation about the size of an army group of the Soviet Army during the Second World War.The Southern Front directed military operations during the Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina in 1940 and then was formed twice after the June 1941 invasion by Germany, codenamed Operation Barbarossa.