British military and peacekeeping activities since WWII

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