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Wars and conflicts iceberg is an iceberg chart topic. On r/IcebergCharts, the highest-scoring available chart on it, "The wars, revolts and various conflicts Iceberg", was posted by u/sparebyond7679 on 20 May 2021 and had about 893 upvotes when it was collected.[1] The subreddit has 1 other chart on the same or closely related topics; see Other versions. A text version, "Werid and obscure wars and conflicts" by ATG, is hosted on IcebergThreads, where it had 867 views as of 29 October 2026.[2]

The IcebergThreads author describes it as: "This was mainly inspired by the weird wars iceberg (credit to Powalowski8) and credit to his weird/obscure wars and battles iceberg v2"

Entries reflect the chart authors' choices and are not verified fact.

"The wars, revolts and various conflicts Iceberg" by u/sparebyond7679 (20 May 2021)

Tiers[edit]

Tiers and entries from the IcebergThreads version[2]. Notes after a dash are shortened from the author's explanations.

Tier 1[edit]

  • Football War
  • Emu War
  • War of the Bucket
  • Pig war
  • Zanzibar war
  • Barbary wars
  • Battle of Castle Itter
  • Pastry War
  • Attack of the Dead Men
  • Second Congo War
  • Taiping Rebellion
  • Transition from Ming to Qing
  • Boxer Rebellion
  • Syrian Civil War

Tier 2[edit]

  • War of Jenkins' ear
  • Battle of the Osowiec Fortress
  • Irish-Canada war
  • Saar Offensive
  • Lobster war
  • Battle of Tanga
  • Whiskey war
  • SMS Cap Trafalgar sinking
  • Operation Wikinger
  • Liberian civil wars
  • Battle of Fuengirola
  • Battle of Bautzen
  • Bahia incident
  • Rhodesian Bush War
  • Waco Siege
  • Ruby Ridge Standoff
  • Seven Years War – A global conflict between an alliance of Britain and Prussia and an alliance of France and Austria
  • PMC Wagner mutiny

Tier 3[edit]

  • Toledo war
  • Battle of Karansebes
  • Northern Crusades
  • 335 years war
  • Battle of Mosul
  • Kettle war
  • Canada-Croatia war
  • Business plot
  • Swiss civil war
  • Aleutian Islands Campaign
  • Fu-Go Balloon attacks
  • Cuban invasion of Angola
  • Bay of Pigs invasion
  • Grand Mosque seizure

Tier 4[edit]

  • Fall of Mosul
  • Nauruan Civil war
  • Lincoln County war
  • Battle of Los Angeles
  • Gdansk Post Office defense
  • Comorian Coup attempts – there have been over 40 coup attempts in the Comoros
  • 1982 Kenyan Coup Attempt
  • Capture of Guam
  • Battle of Cherbourg (1864)
  • Battle of Kiska
  • Molossia-East Germany war
  • Warsaw Uprising – This was a failed uprising by the Polish partisans to gain control of Warsaw during World War Two.
  • Conquest of the Desert – A war where the Argentine troops fought the indigenous people of Patagonia, resulting in many casualties.
  • Paraguayan War – War that led to a gigantic portion of the population of Paraguay's deaths
  • The Time of Troubles – This refers to a period in Russia of civil war and invasion, leading to massive casualties. Like Pugachev's rebellion, A man who called himself Dmitry Ivanovich, the youngest son of Ivan the…
  • Polish-Soviet War – This refers to the post WWI conflict between the new Soviet Union and Poland.
  • Eighty Year's War – A war between the rebelling Dutch and the occupying Spanish empire
  • Nepal Gen Z Revolution – Used ChatGPT to draft a new constitution and elected a new prime minister via Discord call.

Tier 5[edit]

  • French-Welsh war
  • Andorran-German war
  • Battle of Domažlice
  • Capture of the Dutch fleet at Den Helder
  • Battle for the Lake Tanganyika
  • Watermelon war
  • Red River Bridge war
  • War of the League of Cambrai
  • Free State of Jones
  • Texas Archive war
  • Monarchy of the North rebellion
  • Battle of May Island
  • Years of Lead (Italy)
  • 1915 Defense of Van
  • Charge of the Light Brigade
  • The Deluge – This refers to a war where Poland was invaded by both Sweden and then Russia, losing a third of its population.
  • Operation Sheepskin

Tier 6[edit]

  • Invasion of Machurucuto
  • Operation Gideon
  • Johnson County War
  • Battle of Cremera
  • 1871 Korean Expedition
  • Żeligowski's mutiny
  • Kamwina Nsapu rebellion
  • Basus war
  • Werwolf insurgency
  • Pugachev's rebellion – Guy impersonating Tsar Peter III captures the Urals and Kazan until he's arrested and executed in Moscow
  • Soviet-Japanese border conflict – This refers to the border conflicts during the WWII period between Japan and the Soviet Union.
  • Aroostook War – A brief conflict between the U.S. and British Canada over borders
  • Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera incident
  • Operation High Jump
  • Ukraine-DPRK war – When North Korea (DPRK) sent troops to Russia to fight with Ukraine, Ukraine oficcially recognises it as Russian ally and active participant of war so de-facto these two countries are currently…

Tier 7[edit]

  • Madman's war
  • Battle of Schoenfeld
  • Battle of Zwolle
  • Vand Zandt war
  • Filibuster war
  • Great Scallop war
  • COINTELPRO Operations
  • 1981 and 1982 Spanish coup attempt
  • Operation Paul Bunyan
  • Mormon-US War – This war, more commonly known as the Utah war, was between Mormon settlers and federal troops.
  • Russo-Tlinglit war – Conflict between Russian colonists and indigenous Americans in Alaska in 18-19th centuries between
  • Russo-Chukchi war – The war between Russian Empire and Chukchi (indigenous people of northeastern Siberia) in 18th century.Chukchi won
  • Symbionese Liberation Army conflicts
  • Jersey dispute

Tier 8[edit]

  • Battle of Lake Baikal
  • Battle of Athens
  • Weather Station Kurt
  • If day
  • Gombe Chimpanzee war
  • Caligula-Neptune war
  • 2020 Dungan-Kazakh clashes
  • Tuyuhun invasion of Gansu
  • Herder-farmer conflicts
  • Battle of Amami-Oshima
  • War of the Stray Dog
  • Combat of the Thirty
  • Conch Rebellion
  • Circassian Genocide – The ethnic cleansing of almost all of the Circassian population in Russia.
  • Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War – This refers to the intervention of allied troops in World War One during the Russian civil war.
  • Jabidah Massacre – Phillippine government massacre of its own troops.
  • Operation Cottage – Friendly fire incident which resulted in 500 deaths
  • Cross border attacks in Sabah
  • Khmer Rouge insurgency
  • Georgian uprising on Texel
  • Kazakh–Russian ethnic conflicts

Tier 9[edit]

  • Jebel Sahaba massacre – oldest documented incident of warfare between humans
  • Garden Gnomes Liberation Front Attacks
  • 1997 Roby standoff
  • Rainbow Farm shootout
  • Sealand Coup d'etat attempt
  • One Man Invasion of Sark
  • PETA involvement during the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge Occupation
  • Sack of Baltimore
  • Jura separatism
  • Operation Erste Säule
  • Lopota Gorge incident
  • Operation Red Dog – Plot by Neo Nazis to take over the Island of Dominica.
  • Bastard war/Bitch war – Conflict in Soviet prisons and labor camps after WW2 between prisoners who took part in war and the ones who refused it

Other versions[edit]

Other charts from r/IcebergCharts grouped under this topic, ordered by score:

Text versions on other sites:

See also[edit]

Sources[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ u/sparebyond7679. The wars, revolts and various conflicts Iceberg. Reddit (r/IcebergCharts). 20 May 2021. Retrieved 29 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 ATG. Werid and obscure wars and conflicts. IcebergThreads. 11 February 2026. Retrieved 29 October 2026.
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