What is the most Interesting war in history?

Fenno-Korean war

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Shakushain's War.
Originally a conflict over two Ainu tribes turns Ainu vs. Shogun in full force as Shakushain grows to true paranoia.
A lot of what's written on the war sounds like it's from an epic film. Betrayal, redemption, etc. from everyone involved.

And if you don't care for the conflicts both ethnic and territorial background,
it's fucking samurai fighting poison arrow wielding Natives. That's metal as fuck.

>Great Northern War
Hugely underrated, involves one of the most admirable figures in history (Charles XII), mother fucker lived life in the fast lane and was an incredible commander, constantly outsmarting his opponents and fucking up major powers who ganged up to outnumber him. Amazing uniforms, interesting Northern European climate and cultures. After Charles XII died mid war after barely any time of being ruler, Russia took charge and Peter the Great became the recognizable figure instead of Charles, and chased Swedish forces into a death march of the men who once were led to glory under Charles XII. The death of Sweden and the rise of Russia.

I admire Charles XII so much, fucker packed such an amazing career into such a small time, lived like a total badass and died too soon. If he hadn't been shot in battle, Sweden would have continued to be a major player for much longer, and Russia would not have nearly the amount of influence it had in history, it much at all.

A tale of two amazing leaders at odds and lots of luck, both good and bad. Too bad the war of Spanish succession outshined it.

I can't decide but these are some of my favorites:

Spanish Civil War
Russo-Japanese War
Yugoslavian Wars of Disintegration
Opium Wars
30 Years War
Taiping Rebellion & Boxer Rebellion
Congo Wars
South Sudan & Darfur Conflict
Liberian Civil War
Disintegration of the Ottoman Empire during and after WW1
Qarmatian Rebellion
Mahdi Revolt

>ACW
>interesting
pick one
there's a reason no one outside of US cares about it

Why?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobster_War

Imjin War: Absolute Madman stops hundreds of japs from invading Korea with a small flotilla of boats.
Or the Napoleonic Wars: Another madman invades all of Europe to blockade Britain.

Epic meme my man

>Yugoslavian Wars of Disintegration
I will never be able to understand that clusterfuck, but I think Serbs were right in trying to keep their country together.

Nothing really comes close to the Three Kingdoms.

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Taiping Rebellion

2nd Punic war

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Peter the Great is a pretty interesting character too. Like an autistic chad. He westernized and modernized Russia while basically single-handedly created its Navy. The Great Northern War is one of the only events in human history that can backup the "Great Man Theory"

Early American colonial conflicts are pretty interesting and generally ignored even in American history

>Charles XII

That guy died in my hometown.

They still argue if it was a norwegian or swedish bullet that killed him.

Mid-5th through early/mid 4th century Hellas, probably. People will want to divvy it up into a series of wars, though.

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>raiding coastal towns
>real fight

This, there's a really interesting story where he went to the Netherlands incognito to learn shipbuilding. But he also tortured his own son to death.

This,

Imagine if the Arthurian legend wasn't mere fable but we had the actual written records of the people who directly inspired the story, which were detailed enough for us to know all of Arthur's generals, his strategies, people he interacted with, and we weren't just stuck with making up stories of him fucking around with a wizard while getting cucked by his top knight.

Three Kingdoms period is notorious for being a colossal clusterfuck, all the worst possible scenarios happening at exactly the worst possible moments, leaving an almost evenly divided China which took generations to reunite, after almost a hundred years of bitter, continuous fighting and a reduction of the population from 56 million down to almost 16 million.

What never ceases to amaze me is that the Roman Empire experienced its own internal shitshow, the Crisis of the Third Century, at almost exactly the same time, with very similar results, except of course the Battle of Chibi which fucked the Chinese central government and permanently shattered any hope for reconstituting the Han Dynasty the way that Aurelian reunited Rome. But at the same time, for completely unrelated reasons, the two largest powers of the classical era experienced a long-term period of strife and decline.

If you look at the extended conflict of the 100 years war.

It involved England, Scotland, France, Castile, Portugal and Burgundy and many more. Italian and Germany mercenaries also fought in it.

Basically all of Western Europe was drawn into this dynastic conflict one way or another and it has countless of unsung battles. Most just know the gist of the conflict and half a dozen battles between the French and the English but there is so much more to it. Amphibious assaults on the Jersey Islands by Castile, English soldiers being send to fight against their nominal ally of Burgundy to press the claim of a Bavarian noble in Holland.

Besides that the advances in gunpowder weaponry, naval technology, fortification and administration are pretty neat.

The Croats are the real bad guy, they started all the ethnic cleansing off.

1st Punic War
Its a Giant back and Forth between Rome and Carthage on the Island of Sicily, as Rome learns how to build a navy and tries beat the more experienced Carthaginians at sea

Hey, I've not expected that from wikipedia. Comparing niggers with chimpanzees is pretty accurate, well done.

I've always been interested in that time period in China from playing dynasty warriors and the billion other games related to that universe. You described it pretty well and it's so interesting to look into an interesting scenario in hindsight.

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youtube.com/watch?v=M65mswPJN80

any Great Northern War reading recs?

The War of Jenkins' Ear

War of the League of Cambrai, for the unbeatable shenanigans of the eternal sea-Jew.

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For Americans it’s; WWII > > > > > Civil War > > Vietnam War > everything else.

Second Punic War
30 Years' War
Alexander (and his father's) conquests
Roman Civil Wars
WWI
WWII
Peloponnesian War
Napoleonic Wars
American Civil War

I would have to say that the 30 Years' War is the most interesting due to the amount of tactical variance between the powers involved.

the entire existence of burma