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+1 on this unfortunate terminological crash: "Balkan wars" to me means the stuff that happened between 1830 and 1913 as the Ottoman empire withdrew from eastern
by cstross 15y ago
+1 on this unfortunate terminological crash: "Balkan wars" to me means the stuff that happened between 1830 and 1913 as the Ottoman empire withdrew from eastern Europe; "Yugoslavian civil war" is what happened in the 1990s/00s.
(Oh, and the First Gulf War was 1980-88, the Second Gulf War was 1992-93, and the Iraq Invasion was the Third Gulf War. It's odd how wars get air-brushed out of the record if America wasn't involved ...)
- guelo 15y ago> the First Gulf War was 1980-88, Are you referring to the Iran-Iraq war? If so, that seems a strange name for it since it mostly had nothing to do with the Persian Gulf. Though admittedly neither did the other Iraq wars except that that's where the American ships attacked from.