List of wars involving Thailand

Location: Northern Ayutthaya, Southern Lan Na[2]

War elephants depicted from a later Siam–Burma war.

Location: Upper Tenessarim coast, western and central Siam

Painting by Prince Narisara Nuvadtivongs, depicting Queen Suriyothai (center) on her elephant putting herself between King Maha Chakkraphat (right) and the Viceroy of Prome (left).

• The Burmese command decided to withdraw
• Burma claims to regain Upper Tenasserim down to Tavoy (Dawei)

Location: Ayutthaya, Phitsanulok, Sukhothai

• Ayutthaya becomes a Burmese vassal state

Location: Ayutthaya, Phitsanulok, Kamphaeng Phet and Lan Xang

• Ayutthaya remains a Burmese vassal state

Location: Ayutthaya Kingdom and lower Tanintharyi Region

Elephant battle between Naresuan and Mingyi Swa during the Battle of Nong Sarai as wall murals in Phra Ubosot, Wat Suwan Dararam, Ayutthaya, Thailand.

• Siam regains independence
• Siam regains the lower Tanintharyi Region as far as Dawei

Location: Cambodia

• Siamese sack of Longvek (3 Jan 1594)

Location: Southern and central Burma

King Naresuan entered Pegu, mural painting by Phraya Anusatchitrakon, Wat Suwandararam, Ayutthaya.

• Siamese controlled the entire Tenasserim coast
• Lan Na becomes Siamese vassal from 1602–1614

Location: upper Tenasserim coast and Lan Na

• Burma regains upper Tenasserim coast to Tavoy
• Burma regains Lan Na

Location: Northern Siam and Tenasserim coast

• Burma defends upper Burma
• Status quo ante bellum

Location: Tenasserim coast

• Burma defends upper Tenasserim coast
• Siam defeats counter Burmese invasion

Location: Mergui and Coromandel coast

• East India Company fails to blockade the port of Mergui
• The ports of Siam were closed to East India Company vessels until 1708
• The East India had resumed trade using foreign-flagged vessels as early as 1705

Location: Bangkok, Thailand

Siege of the French fortress in Bangkok by the Siamese revolutionary forces of Phetracha in 1688.

• French negotiated retreat

Location: Ayutthaya Kingdom

• Siam defeats Burmese invasion

• Siam gains suzerainty of Cambodia
• Vietnam annexes several border provinces of Cambodia

Location: Tenasserim, Siam

Siege of the French fortress in Bangkok by the Siamese revolutionary forces of Phetracha in 1688.

• Burma captures the Tennasserim coast down to Tavoy–Mergui frontier

Location: Tenasserim coast, Gulf of Siam coast, Suphanburi, Ayutthaya

• End of Ayutthaya Kingdom

Location: Siam

• Thonburi reunification of Siam following the fall of the Ayutthaya Kingdom in 1767

Location: Northern and central Siam, Lan Na

• The Burmese loss of southern Lan Na later proved to be the end of their 200 years rule.
• Siam gains control of Chiang Mai, Lampang, Lamphun

Location: Southern and western Siam, Lan Na

• Siam consolidates control of Chiang Mai

Location: Tenasserim Coast

• Burma successfully defends the Tenasserim Coast from a Siamese invasion

Location: Tenasserim Coast

• Burma successfully defends the Tenasserim Coast from a Siamese invasion

Location: Lan Na

• Siam successfully defends Lan Na from a Burmese invasion

Location: Lan Na

• Siam captures Chiang Saen from Burma

Location: Phuket

• Siam successfully defends Phuket from a Burmese invasion

Location: Burma, East Bengal, Assam, Manipur, Cachar and Jaintia

The storming of one of the principal stockades, near Yangon (Rangoon), 8 July 1824

• East India Company

Supported by:
Rattanakosin Kingdom

• Treaty of Yandabo
• Beginning of British rule in Burma
• Burma cedes Assam, Manipur, Arakan and Tenasserim; loses influence in Cachar and Jaintia; pays one million pounds sterling in indemnity

Location: Khorat Plateau, Thailand; Central and Southern Laos

Location: Cambodia, Southern Vietnam

Location: Southern Vietnam

The French-built Citadel of Saigon was taken over by the rebels on 18 May 1833 and held more than two years until September 1835.

Location: Cambodia, Southern Vietnam

A map showing the movement of Vietnamese troops (from June to December 1845) in Vietnam-Siamese War (1841–1845).

• Cambodia came under joint Siamese-Vietnamese suzerainty

Location: Kengtung, Trans-Salween region

A watercolor of 3 Burmese infantry soldiers in 1855. It was not until soldiers like this were dispatched to combat the Siamese invasion that Siam was finally driven out of Burma.

Location: Northern Laos, western Vietnam, northern Thailand

A Siamese army during Haw wars in 1865

• Luang Phrabang

Location: French Indochina, Siam

French ships Inconstant and Comète under fire in the Paknam incident, 13 July 1893

• French Indochina

Location: Europe

(Clockwise from the top)

• The aftermath of shelling during the Battle of the Somme
• Mark V tanks cross the Hindenburg Line
• HMS Irresistible sinks after hitting a mine in the Dardanelles
• A British Vickers machine gun crew wears gas masks during the Battle of the Somme
• Albatros D.III fighters of Jagdstaffel 11

• Central Powers victory on the Eastern Front nullified by defeat on the Western Front
• Fall of all continental empires in Europe (including Germany, Russia, Turkey and Austria-Hungary)
• Russian Revolution and Russian Civil War – the collapse of the Russian Empire and the subsequent formation of the Soviet Union
• Widespread unrest and revolutions throughout Europe and Asia
• Creation of the League of Nations (more ...)

Location: Central Thailand, Bangkok and Ratchaburi

Siamese soldiers during the rebellion

Location: French Indochina

French Indochina

 

•  French Indochina

• On Japanese decision, disputed territories in French Indochina ceded by France to Thailand

Location: Southeast Asia

(clockwise from top left)

• Collapse of Nazi Germany
• Fall of the Japanese and Italian Empires
• Allied occupations of Germany and Japan and foundation of the Italian Republic
• Beginning of the Nuclear Age
• Dissolution of the League of Nations and creation of the United Nations
• Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as rival superpowers and beginning of the Cold War (more ...)

Location: Malay Peninsula, Southeast Asia

Australian Avro Lincoln bomber dropping 500lb bombs on communist rebels in the Malayan jungle (c. 1950)

 

• Federation of Malaya
•  Southern Rhodesia
  (until 1953)
•  Rhodesia and Nyasaland
  (after 1953)
• Fiji

Australia
New Zealand
Supported by:
 Thailand
(Thai–Malaysian border)

Malayan Communist Party

• Malayan National Liberation Army

Supported by:
China[10][11][12]
Viet Minh
(until 1954)
 North Vietnam
(from 1954)[13][14][15]
 Soviet Union[12][16]
 Indonesia[11][12]

• Independence of Malaya on 31 August 1957

Location: Mainland China (including Hainan) and its coast, China–Burma border

FClockwise from the top: Communist troops at the Battle of Siping; Muslim soldiers of the NRA; Mao Zedong in the 1930s; Chiang Kai-shek inspecting soldiers; CCP general Su Yu investigating the troops shortly before the Menglianggu Campaign

 

• ROC Armed Forces
• Nationalist loyalist guerrillas, militias and regular troops left in Mainland China and Burma

 

• People's Liberation Army

• Major combat ended, but no armistice or peace treaty signed.
• Small pockets of insurgency continued through the 1960s.
• Chinese Communist Party takeover of mainland China and Hainan
• People's Republic of China established in mainland China
• Government of the Republic of China relocated to Taiwan

Location: Korean Peninsula, Yellow Sea, Sea of Japan, Korea Strait, China–North Korea border

Clockwise from top: A column of the U.S. 1st Marine Division's infantry and armor moves through Chinese lines during their breakout from the Chosin Reservoir • UN landing at Incheon harbor, starting point of the Battle of Incheon • Korean refugees in front of a U.S. M46 Patton tank • U.S. Marines, led by First Lieutenant Baldomero Lopez, landing at Incheon • F-86 Sabre fighter aircraft

 South Korea

United Nations[lower-alpha 1]

•  United States
•  United Kingdom
•  Canada
•  Turkey
•  Australia
•  Philippines
•  New Zealand
•  Thailand
•  Ethiopia
•  Greece
•  France
•  Colombia
•  Belgium
•  South Africa
•  Netherlands
•  Luxembourg

• North Korean invasion of South Korea repelled
• Subsequent U.S.-led United Nations invasion of North Korea repelled
• Subsequent Chinese invasion of South Korea repelled
• Korean Armistice Agreement signed in 1953
• Korean conflict ongoing
• Korean Demilitarized Zone established
• North Korea gains city of Kaesong but loses a net total of 3,900 km² (1,500 sq mi) to South Korea.[26]

Location: South Vietnam, North Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, South China Sea, Gulf of Thailand

Clockwise, from top left: U.S. combat operations in Ia Đrăng, ARVN Rangers defending Saigon during the 1968 Tết Offensive, two A-4C Skyhawks after the Gulf of Tonkin incident, ARVN recapture Quảng Trị during the 1972 Easter Offensive, civilians fleeing the 1972 Battle of Quảng Trị, and burial of 300 victims of the 1968 Huế Massacre.

• Withdrawal of U.S. forces from Vietnam
• Communist forces take power in South Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos
• Reunification of Vietnam
• Start of the Cambodian–Vietnamese War
• Start of the boat people crisis and Indochina refugee crisis
• Reunification of North and South Vietnam into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

Location: Kingdom of Laos

Laos

• Establishment of the Lao People's Democratic Republic
• Exile of the Kingdom of Laos.

Location: Thailand (primarily northeast Thailand)

Ta Ko Bi Cave, a former hideout used by communist rebels.

 

• Royal Thai Armed Forces
• Royal Thai Police
• Volunteer Defense Corps

 Taiwan (until July 1967)

• Kuomintang 49th Division

 United States

• United States Air Force

 Malaysia

• Malaysian Armed Forces

Supported by:
 Indonesia (from 1968)[32]

Pathet Lao
Khmer Rouge (until 1978)
Malayan Communist Party
Supported by:
 North Vietnam (until 1976)
 Vietnam (from 1976)
 China (1971–1978)
 Soviet Union
 North Korea

• Amnesty declared on 23 April 1980 by the Thai government
• Order 66/2523 signed by Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda
• Communist insurgency declines and ends in 1983

Location: Cambodia

US tanks entering a town in Cambodia in 1970.

GRUNK (1970–1975)

• FUNK
• Khmer Rouge (1968–1975)
• Khmer Rumdo

 North Vietnam
Việt Cộng

• Fall of the Kingdom of Cambodia
• Creation, then collapse, of the Khmer Republic
• Establishment of Democratic Kampuchea
• Beginning of the Cambodian genocide

Location: Malaysian Peninsular and Sarawak

Sarawak Rangers (present-day part of the Malaysian Rangers) consisting of Ibans leap from a Royal Australian Air Force Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopter to guard the Malay–Thai border from potential Communist attacks in 1965, two years before the war starting in 1968.

 

 

Supported by:
 United Kingdom[36]
 Australia
 New Zealand[37]
 United States
 South Vietnam (until 1975)

Malayan Communist Party[38]

• Malayan National Liberation Army[38]

Communist Party of Thailand (until 1983)
Supported by:
 China[39][10]
 Soviet Union[39]
 Vietnam (until late 1970s)
North Kalimantan Communist Party

• Communists agree to a ceasefire
• Peace Agreement of Hat Yai 1989 signed between the communists and the governments of Malaysia and Thailand
• Dissolution of the Malayan Communist Party (MCP)[40][41]

Location: Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, China

 

• Khmer Rouge
• CGDK

Lao royalists
Hmong insurgents
FULRO
 Thailand
Supported by:
 United States
 North Korea[42]

 

• Pak Mai

Supported by:
Warsaw Pact countries (until 1991)[42]

• Removal of the Khmer Rouge from power
• End of the Cambodian genocide
• Pro-Vietnamese government installed in Cambodia
• China withdraws from Vietnam after 27 days of fighting
• Communist Party of Thailand abandons armed struggle
• Vietnam withdraws from Cambodia in 1991
• 1990 Chengdu summit leads to the normalization of relations between China and Vietnam
• Restoration of the House of Norodom
• Ongoing insurgency in Laos

Location: Thai–Cambodian border, Gulf of Thailand

 

• PDK (Khmer Rouge)
• KPNLF
• FUNCINPEC

Supported by:
 United States
 China

• Destruction of numerous guerrilla bases and refugee camps along the Thai–Cambodian border
• Isolated outbreaks of open hostility between Vietnamese and Thai troops
• Withdrawal of Vietnamese troops from the border in 1989

Location: Chat Trakan District, Phitsanulok Province, Thailand
Botene District, Sainyabuli Province, Lao PDR

Sarawak Rangers (present-day part of the Malaysian Rangers) consisting of Ibans leap from a Royal Australian Air Force Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopter to guard the Malay–Thai border from potential Communist attacks in 1965, two years before the war starting in 1968Noen 1428 (Hill 1428), the battlefield of Thai–Laotian Border War of 1988, view from Phu Soidao National Park, Chat Trakan, Phitsanulok.

• Return to status quo ante bellum

Location: Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf

Clockwise from top: USAF F-15Es, F-16s, and a F-15C flying over burning Kuwaiti oil wells; British troops from the Staffordshire Regiment in Operation Granby; camera view from a Lockheed AC-130; the Highway of Death; M728 Combat Engineer Vehicle.

• Republic of Kuwait (1990)

• Iraqi forces expelled from Kuwait
• Kuwaiti monarchy restored
• Destruction of Iraqi and Kuwaiti infrastructure
• Failed Shia/Kurdish uprisings against the Iraqi government
• Saddam Hussein regime of the Iraqi Baathist government retains power in Iraq
• UN sanctions against Iraq
• Iraqi no-fly zones established
• United Nations Security Council Resolution 687 establishes cease-fire terms, beginning of the Iraq disarmament controversies
• The Republic of Kuwait and the Kuwait Governorate of the de facto 19th governorate of Iraq returned to the State of Kuwait
• Iraqi Kurdistan obtains autonomy, establishment of the northern Iraq no fly zone by the US

Location: East Timor

Australian members of International Force East Timor (INTERFET), talk to a citizen in Dili, East Timor, in February 2000.

• Australia – 5,500
• New Zealand – 1,200
• Thailand – 1,600
• Brazil 
• Canada 
• Fiji 
• France 
• Germany 
• Ireland 
• Italy 
• Jordan 
• Kenya 
• Malaysia 
• Norway 
• Pakistan 
• Philippines 
• Portugal 
• Singapore 
• South Korea 
• United Kingdom 
• United States [49]

• Pro-Indonesian Militias
  • Aitarak
  • Besi Merah Putih
  • Laksaur
  • Mahidi

• Defeat of pro-Indonesian militia
• Stabilisation of East Timor

Location: Horn of Africa, Gulf of Aden, Guardafui Channel

French Naval commandos (green) and United States soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Regiment (tan) participate in an exercise at Djibouti in June 2004.

 NATO:

•  Belgium
•  Canada
•  Denmark
•  France
•  Germany
•  Greece
•  Italy
•  Netherlands
•  Portugal
•  Spain
•  Turkey
•  United Kingdom
•  United States

CJTF-HOA allies:

•  Djibouti
•  Somalia
•  Ethiopia
•  Sudan
•  Seychelles
•  Kenya

Non-NATO allies:

•  Australia
•  Azerbaijan
•  China
•  Colombia
•  European Union
•  India
•  Indonesia
•  Japan
•  Kazakhstan
•  Kyrgyzstan
•  Malaysia
•  New Zealand
•  Pakistan
•  Russia
•  Singapore
•  South Korea
•  Tajikistan
•  Thailand
•  Turkmenistan
•  Uganda
•  Ukraine
•  Uzbekistan

Dai Hong Dan incident:

•  North Korea

• Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
  (from 2015)
• al-Qaeda
  (from 2002)
• Harakat al-Shabaab Mujahedeen
  (from 2006)
• al-Itihaad al-Islamiya
  (2002–06)
• Islamic Courts Union
  (until 27 December 2006)
• Hizbul Islam
  (2009–14)
• Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia
  (2007–09)
• Ras Kamboni Brigades
  (2007–10)
• Jabhatul Islamiya
  (2007–09)
• Mu'askar Anole
  (2007–09)

Pirates:

• Somali Marines[50]
• National Volunteer Coast Guard (NVCG)[50]
• Marka group[50]
• Puntland Group[50]
• Yemeni Pirates[51][52][53]