The following is a list of all the theatres in which British Forces have been involved from 1945 to the present day –  December 2009 – including participation in United Nation’s activities. Not included, but what was a constant threat from the 1950s through to 1990, is the Cold War stand off between NATO Forces and Soviet Russia.

 

1945 to 1948 Palestine
1948 to 1960 Malaya
1949 China – Yangtze Incident
1950 to 1953 Korean War
1951 to 1954 The Canal Zone
1952 to 1956 Kenyan Emergency
1955 to 1959 Cyprus
1956 Suez
1957 to 1960 Arabian Peninsular
1964 to 1969 The Congo
1962 to 1964 Brunei
1962 to 1966 Borneo
1964 to present day Cyprus
1964 Radfan
1964 to 1967 South Arabia
1964 to 1965 Malay Peninsular
1969 to 2007 Northrn Ireland
1969 to 1978 Dhofar
1979 to 1980 Rhodesia
1982 South Atlantic – The Falklands War
1984 Gulf of Suez
1988 to 1989 Gulf
1989 to 1990 Peshawar
1989 to 1990 Namibia
1990 to 1991 Gulf
1991 Kuwait
1991 to 2003 Iraq/Kuwait
1991 to present day Western Sahara
1991 Northern Iraq/Southern Turkey
1991 to 1993 Cambodia
1992 to 2002 Former Yugoslavia
1993 to 1998 Sarajevo
1993 to present day Georgia
1993 to 1998 Rwanda
1997 Angola
1996 to 1998 Croatia
1998 to 2002 Kosovo
1999 to 2002 Sierra Leone
1999 to present day The Congo
1998 to 2007 Kosovo
1999 East Timor
2000 to present day Ethiopia and Eritrea
2001 to present day Macedonia
2001 to present day Afghanistan
2003 to present day Iraq
2012 to present day Syria