# List of wars involving Cuba

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 Expeditions (1850-1851) | Filibusters | Spain | Defeat Defeat of Filibusters, López is executed | None | None |
| Ten Years' War (1868–1878) | Cuban Liberation Army | Spain | Defeat Pact of Zanjón | None | None |
| Little War (1879–1880) | Cuban Liberation Army | Spain | Defeat Rebel defeat | None | None |
| Cuban War of Independence (1895–1898) | Cuban Liberation Army United States | Spain | Victory Cuban independence from Spain | None | None |
| Cuban Pacification (1906) | Conservatives | Liberals | Liberal victory Subsequent US occupation of Cuba | Tomás Estrada Palma | None |
| Negro Rebellion (1912) | Cuba United States | PIC | Government victory Rebellion suppressed | José Miguel Gómez | None |
| 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 End of the German, Russian, Ottoman, and Austro-Hungarian empires Formation of new countries in Europe and the Middle East Transfer of German colonies and regions of the former Ottoman Empire to other powers Establishment of the League of Nations | Mario García Menocal | None |
| Sugar Intervention (1917–1922) | Conservatives United States | Liberals | Conservative victory Uprising quelled, US occupation of Cuba | Mario García Menocal | None |
| World War II (1941–1945) | 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 Collapse of the German Reich Fall of Japanese and Italian Empires Creation of the United Nations Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as superpowers Beginning of the Cold War | Fulgencio Batista | Carlos Saladrigas Zayas |
| Cuban Revolution (1953–1959) | Batista Regime | M-26-7 Student Revolutionary Directorate Second National Front of Escambray Popular Socialist Party | Regime change Beginning of Castro's rule | Fulgencio Batista | Andrés Domingo |
| Escambray Rebellion (1959–1965) | Castro Regime | Various Insurgents | Government victory Elimination of all insurgents | Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado | Fidel Castro |
| Invasion of Panama (1959) | Cuba | Panama | Defeat Expedition fails | Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado | Fidel Castro |
| Invasion of the Dominican Republic (1959) | Cuba | Dominican Republic | Defeat Expedition fails | Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado | Fidel Castro |
| Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961) | Cuba | Brigade 2506 United States Cuban DRF | Victory The invasion was defeated | Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado | Fidel Castro |
| Invasion of Venezuela (1963) | Cuba | Venezuela | Defeat Expedition fails | Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado | Fidel Castro |
| Sand War (1963–1964) | Algeria Cuba | Morocco | Stalemate No territorial changes were made | Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado | Fidel Castro |
| Congo Crisis (1964) | Simbas PSA Cuba | Congo-Léopoldville Belgium | Defeat Cuban withdrawal from the Congo | Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado | Fidel Castro |
| Guinea-Bissau War of Independence (1964–1974) | PAIGC Cuba | Portugal | Stalemate (political victory) Independence of Guinea-Bissau | Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado | Fidel Castro |
| Bolivian Campaign (1966–1967) | ELN Cuba | Bolivia United States | Defeat Guerrillas defeated, Che Guevara executed | Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado | Fidel Castro |
| Machurucuto Incident (1967) | Cuba | Venezuela | Defeat Expedition fails | Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado | Fidel Castro |
| Yemenite War of 1972 (1972) | South Yemen Cuba | North Yemen | Indecisive No territorial changes | Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado | Fidel Castro |
| Yom Kippur War (1973) | Egypt Syria Iraq Jordan Algeria Morocco Saudi Arabia Cuba | Israel | Defeat Egypt–Israel peace treaty Israel–Syria Disengagement Agreement | Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado | Fidel Castro |
| Operation Independence (1975-1977) | ERP Montoneros Cuba | Argentina | Defeat | | Fidel Castro |
| Angolan Civil War (1975–1991) | MPLA SWAPO SWANU Cuba MK | UNITA FNLA FLEC South Africa Zaire | Stalemate Three Powers Accord Independence of Namibia | Fidel Castro | Fidel Castro |
| Ethio-Somali War (1977–1978) | Ethiopia Cuba South Yemen Soviet Union | Somalia WSLF | Victory Somali withdrawal from the Ethio-Somali War | Fidel Castro | Fidel Castro |
| Ethiopian Civil War (1977–1991) | Ethiopia Cuba | EPRP TPLF MEISON ANDM EDUP | Defeat Fall of the Communist Mengistu government, installation of TPLF-led transitional government | Fidel Castro | Fidel Castro |
| Eritrean War of Independence (1977–1991) | Ethiopia Cuba South Yemen Soviet Union | ELF EPLF | Defeat Eritrean independence from Ethiopia | Fidel Castro | Fidel Castro |
| Invasion of Grenada (1983) | Grenada Cuba | United States Grenadian Opposition Barbados Jamaica Antigua and Barbuda Dominica Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Defeat American occupation of Grenada | Fidel Castro |

## Footnotes

* ↑ 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.
* ↑ "Rubén Miró y la invasión de cubanos a Panamá" (in Spanish). Panama City: La Estrella de Panamá. April 22, 2010. Archived from the original on July 18, 2019. Retrieved September 14, 2018.
* ↑ Lora, J. Armando. "Invasión" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on March 4, 2008. Retrieved September 14, 2018.
* ↑ 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.
* ↑ Gleijeses 2002, p. 44.
* ↑ A Guerra - Colonial - do Ultramar - da Libertação, 2nd Season (Portugal 2007, director Joaquim Furtado, RTP)
* ↑ Loyola, Mario (7 October 2013). "How We Used to Do It - American diplomacy in the". National Review. p. 1. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
* ↑ Enrique Díaz-Araujo. La guerrilla en sus libros. p. 98.
* ↑ "Página/12 :: El país :: Gorriarán Merlo cuenta su versión". Retrieved 11 May 2016.
* ↑ "Página/12". Retrieved 23 February 2015.