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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 invasions of Cuba

(1850-1851)

Filibusters   Spain Defeat
  • Defeat of Filibusters, López is executed
None
None
Ten Years' War
(1868–1878)
Cuban Liberation Army   Spain Defeat
Little War
(1879–1880)
Cuban Liberation Army   Spain Defeat
  • Rebel defeat
Cuban War of Independence
(1895–1898)
Cuban Liberation Army
  United States
  Spain Victory
  • Cuban independence from Spain
Cuban Pacification
(1906)
Cuba Conservatives Cuba Liberals Liberal victory
  • Subsequent US occupation of Cuba
Negro Rebellion
(1912)
  Cuba
  United States
Cuba PIC Government victory
  • Rebellion suppressed
World War I
(1917–1918)
  France
  United Kingdom
  Russia
  United States
  Italy
  Japan
  China
  Canada
  Australia
  New Zealand
  India
  South Africa
  Serbia
  Montenegro
  Romania
  Belgium
  Greece
  Portugal
  Brazil
  Cuba
  Panama
  Guatemala
  Nicaragua
  Costa Rica
  Honduras
  Germany
  Austria-Hungary
  Ottoman Empire
  Bulgaria
Victory
Sugar Intervention
(1917–1922)
Cuba Conservatives
  United States
Cuba Liberals Conservative victory
  • Uprising quelled, US occupation of Cuba
World War II
(1941–1945) [1]
  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
  Germany
  Japan
  Italy
  Hungary
  Romania
  Bulgaria
  Croatia
  Slovakia
  Finland
  Thailand
  Manchukuo
  Mengjiang
Victory
Cuban Revolution
(1953–1959)
Cuba Batista Regime M-26-7

Student Revolutionary Directorate

Second National Front of Escambray

Popular Socialist Party

Regime change
Escambray Rebellion
(1959–1965)
Cuba Castro Regime Cuba Various Insurgents Government victory
  • Elimination of all insurgents
Invasion of Panama [2]
(1959)
  Cuba   Panama Defeat
  • Expedition fails
Invasion of the Dominican Republic [3]
(1959)
  Cuba   Dominican Republic Defeat
  • Expedition fails
Bay of Pigs Invasion
(1961)
  Cuba Brigade 2506
  United States
Cuba Cuban DRF
Victory
  • The invasion was defeated
Invasion of Venezuela [4]
(1963)
  Cuba   Venezuela Defeat
  • Expedition fails
Sand War
(1963–1964) [5]
  Algeria
  Cuba
  Morocco Stalemate
  • No territorial changes were made
Congo Crisis
(1964)
Simbas
PSA
  Cuba
Democratic Republic of the Congo Congo-Léopoldville
  Belgium
Defeat
  • Cuban withdrawal from the Congo
Guinea-Bissau War of Independence
(1964–1974)
PAIGC
  Cuba
  Portugal Stalemate (political victory) [6]
Bolivian Campaign
(1966–1967)
ELN
  Cuba
  Bolivia
  United States
Defeat
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
Iraq Iraq
  Jordan
  Algeria
  Morocco
  Saudi Arabia
  Cuba
  Israel Defeat
Operation Independence
(1975-1977)
ERP
Montoneros
  Cuba [8] [9] [10]
  Argentina Defeat
Angolan Civil War
(1975–1991)
MPLA
SWAPO
SWANU
  Cuba
MK
UNITA
FNLA
FLEC
  South Africa
  Zaire
Stalemate
Ethio-Somali War
(1977–1978)
Ethiopia
  Cuba
  South Yemen
  Soviet Union
Somalia Somalia
WSLF
Victory
  • Somali withdrawal from the Ethio-Somali War
Ethiopian Civil War
(1977–1991)
Ethiopia Ethiopia
  Cuba
EPRP
TPLF
Ethiopia MEISON
ANDM
Ethiopia EDUP
Defeat
  • Fall of the Communist Mengistu government, installation of TPLF-led transitional government
Eritrean War of Independence
(1977–1991)
Ethiopia Ethiopia
  Cuba
  South Yemen
  Soviet Union
ELF
EPLF
Defeat
  • Eritrean independence from Ethiopia
Invasion of Grenada
(1983)
Grenada Grenada
  Cuba
  United States
Grenada 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. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Rubén Miró y la invasión de cubanos a Panamá" (in Spanish). Panama City: La Estrella de Panamá. April 22, 2010. Retrieved September 14, 2018.
  3. ^ Lora, J. Armando. "Invasión" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on March 4, 2008. Retrieved September 14, 2018.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Gleijeses 2002, p. 44.
  6. ^ A Guerra - Colonial - do Ultramar - da Libertação, 2nd Season (Portugal 2007, director Joaquim Furtado, RTP)
  7. ^ Loyola, Mario (7 October 2013). "How We Used to Do It - American diplomacy in the". National Review. p. 1. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
  8. ^ Enrique Díaz-Araujo. La guerrilla en sus libros. p. 98.
  9. ^ "Página/12 :: El país :: Gorriarán Merlo cuenta su versión". Retrieved 11 May 2016.
  10. ^ "Página/12". Retrieved 23 February 2015.

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