Above: Map of Pakistan during the Second Kashmir War The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, or Second Kashmir War, was the culmination of a series of hostilities that occurred between April 1965 and September 1965 between India and Pakistan. The war was the second one fought between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, the first having been fought in 1947. The war lasted for five weeks, resulted in thousands of casualties on both sides and it ended in a United Nations (UN) ordered ... Read More

In America the idea took roots that she had the divine right to expand her borders from sea to sea - it was called 'manifest destiny'. This notion caused suffering to Mexico and Native Americans. Tension began to grow after Texas became a part of USA following the Texas War of Independence. Frontier disputes began to snowball into armed conflicts. President Polk took these as an excuse to grab large regions from Mexico. America wanted to march towards the Pacific and in so doing ... Read More

Above: Map showing the borders between Poland and Czech Republic, and other countries of Central Europe (click map to enlarge) The Post World War I saw the outbreak of hostilities between Poland and Czechoslovakia over Teschen. It was an area rich in many ways - iron and textile industries, strategic rail connections and above all coalfields of Silesia. On 5th November 1918 the two countries formally agreed upon a borderline but neither was serious about abiding by it. Within a month, on ... Read More