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
CubaCuban 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
 United States
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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