List of wars involving Thailand

Location:Champa

Trần dynasty

Location: Northern Ayutthaya, Southern Lan Na^{[3][full citation needed]}

Location: Upper Tenessarim coast, western and central Siam

• The Burmese command decided to withdraw
• Burma claims to regain Upper Tenasserim down to Tavoy (Dawei)

Location: Ayutthaya, Phitsanulok, Sukhothai

• Ayutthaya becomes a Burmese vassal state

Location: Ayutthaya, Phitsanulok, Kamphaeng Phet and Lan Xang

• Ayutthaya remains a Burmese vassal state

Location: Ayutthaya Kingdom and lower Tanintharyi Region

• Siam regains independence
• Siam regains the lower Tanintharyi Region as far as Dawei

Location: Cambodia

• Siamese sack of Longvek (3 Jan 1594)

Location: Southern and central Burma

• Siamese controlled the entire Tenasserim coast
• Lan Na becomes Siamese vassal from 1602 to 1614

Location: upper Tenasserim coast and Lan Na

• Burma regains upper Tenasserim coast to Tavoy
• Burma regains Lan Na

(1624–1636)^[6][7][8]

Dutch East India Company

• Crown of Castile
  • Spanish East Indies
• Council of Portugal
  • Macau
  • Goa
  • Malacca

• Dutch hegemony on Southeast AsiaAyutthaya Japan - Spain War Spain died in the war 150

Location: Northern Siam and Tenasserim coast

• Burma defends upper Burma
• Status quo ante bellum

Location: Tenasserim coast

• Burma defends upper Tenasserim coast
• Siam defeats counter Burmese invasion

Location: Mergui and Coromandel coast

• East India Company fails to blockade the port of Mergui
• The ports of Siam were closed to East India Company vessels until 1708
• The East India had resumed trade using foreign-flagged vessels as early as 1705

Location: Bangkok, Thailand

• French negotiated retreat

Location: Ayutthaya Kingdom

• Siam defeats Burmese invasion

Location: Cambodia

• Siam gains suzerainty of Cambodia
• Vietnam annexes several border provinces of Cambodia

Location: Tenasserim, Siam

• Burma captures the Tennasserim coast down to Tavoy–Mergui frontier

Location: Tenasserim coast, Gulf of Siam coast, Suphanburi, Ayutthaya

• End of Ayutthaya Kingdom

Location: Siam

• Thonburi reunification of Siam following the fall of the Ayutthaya Kingdom in 1767

Location: Cambodia, Southern Vietnam

Location: Northern and central Siam, Lan Na

• The Burmese loss of southern Lan Na later proved to be the end of their 200 years rule.
• Siam gains control of Chiang Mai, Lampang, Lamphun

Location: Khorat Plateau

• Lao kingdoms of Luang Phrabang, Vientiane and Champasak came under Siamese suzerainty.

Location: Rạch Gầm River and Xoài Mút River, Southern Vietnam

Location: Western Siam

• Siam gains control of Chiang Mai and Lanna

Location:Tenasserim Coast

Location:Tenasserim Coast

Location: Lanna Kingdom, Northern Thailand

Location: Lanna Kingdom, Northern Thailand

• Siam gains control of Chiang Saen

Location: Phuket

• Siam successfully defends Phuket from a Burmese invasion
• Tenasserim Coast is depopulated

Location: Cambodia, Southern Vietnam

Vietnamese forces restore Ang Chan to the Cambodian throne

Location: Kedah

• Exile of Ahmad Tajuddin Halim Shah II^[15]
• Imposition of direct Siamese rule on Kedah
• Start of the Kedahan resistance^[16]

Location: Burma, East Bengal, Manipur

• East India Company
• Supported by:
  Rattanakosin Kingdom^[17][18]

• Treaty of Yandabo
• Beginning of British rule in Burma
• Burma cedes Manipur and Tenasserim to Britain

Location: Central Laos

Location: Cambodia, Southern Vietnam

• Cambodia becomes a vassal state of Vietnam

Location: Cambodia, Cochinchina

Siamese intervention
Cambodia independence from Vietnam
Cambodia came under joint Siamese-Vietnamese suzerainty

Location: Cambodia, Southern Vietnam

• Cambodia came under joint Siamese-Vietnamese suzerainty

Location: Kengtung, Trans-Salween region

Location: Eastern Cambodia,

• Luang Phrabang

Location: French Indochina, Siam

• French Indochina

• Land on east bank of the Mekong ceded to French Indochina

Location: Phrae

Location: Europe

• Central Powers victory on the Eastern Front nullified by defeat on the Western Front
• Fall of all continental empires in Europe (including Germany, Russia, Turkey and Austria-Hungary)
• Russian Revolution and Russian Civil War – the collapse of the Russian Empire and the subsequent formation of the Soviet Union
• Widespread unrest and revolutions throughout Europe and Asia
• Creation of the League of Nations (more ...)

Location: French Indochina

•  French Indochina

• Japanese-mediated armistice^[20]
• Siem Reap, Phra Tabong, Sisophon ceded to Thailand

Location:Thailand

• Thai alliance with Japan
• Thailand declares war on the Allied Powers.

Location: Southeast Asia

• Collapse of Nazi Germany
• Fall of the Japanese and Italian Empires
• Allied occupations of Germany and Japan and foundation of the Italian Republic
• Beginning of the Nuclear Age
• Dissolution of the League of Nations and creation of the United Nations
• Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as rival superpowers and beginning of the Cold War (more ...)

Location: Malay Peninsula, Southeast Asia

• Federation of Malaya
•  Southern Rhodesia
  (until 1953)
•  Rhodesia and Nyasaland
  (after 1953)
• Fiji

Australia
New Zealand
Supported by:
 Thailand
(Thai–Malaysian border)

• Malayan National Liberation Army

Supported by:
China^[21][22][23]
Viet Minh
(until 1954)
 North Vietnam
(from 1954)^[24][25][26]
 Soviet Union^[23][27]
 Indonesia^[22][23]

• Independence of Malaya on 31 August 1957

Location: Korean Peninsula, Yellow Sea, Sea of Japan, Korea Strait, China–North Korea border

 South Korea

United Nations^[b]

•  United States
•  United Kingdom
•  Canada
•  Turkey
•  Australia
•  Philippines
•  New Zealand
•  Thailand
•  Ethiopia
•  Greece
•  France
•  Colombia
•  Belgium
•  South Africa
•  Netherlands
•  Luxembourg

• North Korean invasion of South Korea repelled
• Subsequent U.S.-led United Nations invasion of North Korea repelled
• Subsequent Chinese invasion of South Korea repelled
• Korean Armistice Agreement signed in 1953
• Korean conflict ongoing
• Korean Demilitarized Zone established
• North Korea gains city of Kaesong but loses a net total of 3,900 km² (1,500 sq mi) to South Korea.^[37]

Location: South Vietnam, North Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, South China Sea, Gulf of Thailand

• Withdrawal of U.S. forces from Vietnam
• Communist forces take power in South Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos
• Reunification of Vietnam
• Start of the Cambodian–Vietnamese War
• Start of the boat people crisis and Indochina refugee crisis
• Reunification of North and South Vietnam into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

Location: Kingdom of Laos

• Establishment of the Lao People's Democratic Republic
• Exile of the Kingdom of Laos.

Location: Thailand (primarily East Thailand)

• Royal Thai Armed Forces
• Royal Thai Police
• Volunteer Defense Corps

Supported by:

 Taiwan (until July 1981)

• Kuomintang 49th Division^{[citation needed]}

 United States^{[citation needed]}

Pathet Lao^{[citation needed]}

Supported By:

Khmer Rouge (until 1982)^{[citation needed]}
 Vietnam
 China (from 1979)
 Soviet Union

• Amnesty declared on 23 April 1980 by the Thai government
• Order 66/2523 signed by Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda
• Communist insurgency declines and ends in 1984

Location: Cambodia

• FUNK
• Khmer Rouge (1968–1975)
• Khmer Rumdo

 North Vietnam
Việt Cộng

• Fall of the Kingdom of Cambodia
• Creation, then collapse, of the Khmer Republic
• Establishment of Democratic Kampuchea
• Beginning of the Cambodian genocide

Location: Malaysian Peninsular and Sarawak

Supported by:
 United Kingdom^[46]
 Australia
 New Zealand^[47]
 United States
 South Vietnam (until 1975)

Malayan Communist Party^[48]

• Malayan National Liberation Army^[48]

Communist Party of Thailand (until 1983)
Supported by:
 China^[49][21]
 Soviet Union^[49]
 Vietnam (until late 1970s)
North Kalimantan Communist Party

• Communists agree to a ceasefire
• Peace Agreement of Hat Yai 1989 signed between the communists and the governments of Malaysia and Thailand
• Dissolution of the Malayan Communist Party (MCP)^[50][51]

Location: Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, China

• Khmer Rouge
• CGDK

Lao royalists
Hmong insurgents
FULRO
 Thailand
Supported by:
 United States
 North Korea^[52]

• Pak Mai

Supported by:
Warsaw Pact countries (until 1991)^[52]

• Removal of the Khmer Rouge from power
• End of the Cambodian genocide
• Pro-Vietnamese government installed in Cambodia
• China withdraws from Vietnam after 27 days of fighting
• Communist Party of Thailand abandons armed struggle
• Vietnam withdraws from Cambodia in 1991
• 1990 Chengdu summit leads to the normalization of relations between China and Vietnam
• Restoration of the House of Norodom
• Ongoing insurgency in Laos

Location: Thai–Cambodian border, Gulf of Thailand

• PDK (Khmer Rouge)
• KPNLF
• FUNCINPEC

Supported by:
 United States
 China

• Destruction of numerous guerrilla bases and refugee camps along the Thai–Cambodian border
• Isolated outbreaks of open hostility between Vietnamese and Thai troops
• Withdrawal of Vietnamese troops from the border in 1989

Location: Chat Trakan District, Phitsanulok Province, Thailand
Botene District, Sainyabuli Province, Lao PDR

• Return to status quo ante bellum

Location: Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and
the Persian Gulf

• Iraqi forces expelled from Kuwait
• Kuwaiti independence restored
• Destruction of Iraqi and Kuwaiti infrastructure

Location: East Timor

International Force:

• Australia – 5,500
• New Zealand – 1,200
• Thailand – 1,600
• Brazil 
• Canada 
• Fiji 
• France 
• Germany 
• Ireland 
• Italy 
• Jordan 
• Kenya 
• Malaysia 
• Norway 
• Pakistan 
• Philippines 
• Portugal 
• Singapore 
• South Korea 
• United Kingdom 
• United States ^[57]

• Pro-Indonesian Militias
  • Aitarak
  • Besi Merah Putih
  • Laksaur
  • Mahidi

• Defeat of pro-Indonesian militia
• Stabilisation of East Timor

 United States

Iraq
 United States
 United Kingdom

MNF–I
(2003–09)

•  United States
  (2003–09)
•  United Kingdom
  (2003–09)
•  Australia
  (2003–09)
•  Turkey
  (2003–08)
•  Romania
  (2003–09)
•  Azerbaijan
  (2003–08)
•  Kuwait
  (2003–08)
•  Estonia
  (2003–09)
•  El Salvador
  (2003–09)
•  Bulgaria
  (2003–08)
•  Moldova
  (2003–08)
•  Albania
  (2003–08)
•  Ukraine
  (2003–08)
•  Denmark
  (2003–08)
•  Czech Republic
  (2003–08)
•  South Korea
  (2003–08)
•  Singapore
  (2003–08)
•  Bosnia and Herzegovina (2003–08)
•  North Macedonia
  (2003–08)
•  Latvia
  (2003–08)
•  Poland
  (2003–08)
•  Kazakhstan
  (2003–08)
•  Mongolia
  (2003–08)
•  Georgia
  (2003–08)
•  Tonga
  (2004–08)
•  Japan
  (2004–08)
•  Armenia
  (2005–08)
•  Slovakia
  (2003–07)
•  Lithuania
  (2003–07)
•  Italy
  (2003–06)
•  Norway
  (2003–06)
•  Hungary
  (2003–05)
•  Netherlands
  (2003–05)
•  Portugal
  (2003–05)
•  New Zealand
  (2003–04)
•  Thailand
  (2003–04)
•  Philippines
  (2003–04)
•  Honduras
  (2003–04)
•  Dominican Republic
  (2003–04)
•  Spain
  (2003–04)
•  Nicaragua
  (2003–04)
•  Iceland
  (2003–04)

Supported by:
 Iran^[62][63]

• Artesh

 Iraqi Kurdistan

• Peshmerga

 Iraq

• SCJL
  • JRTN

Sunni insurgents

• AQI (2004–06)
• ISI^[65] (from 2006)
• IAI
• Ansar al-Sunnah (2003–07)
• Others

Shia insurgents

• Mahdi Army
• Special Groups
• Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq
• Others

Supported by:
 Iran

• IRGC
  • Quds Force^[66]

• Invasion and occupation of Iraq
• Defeat of Ba'ath Party-led regime and execution of Saddam Hussein
• Iraqi insurgency, emergence of al-Qaeda in Iraq, and civil war
• Subsequent depletion of Iraqi insurgency, improvements in public security
• Establishment of democratic elections and formation of new Shia led government
• U.S.–Iraq Status of Forces Agreement
• Withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq
• Rise of Iraqi insurgency after U.S. withdrawal and spillover with the Syrian Civil War
• Resurgence of al-Qaeda in Iraq and Syria

RTARF

RTP

VDC

 Islamic State

• East Asia Province (minimal presence)^[90]

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  Drug cartels^[91][92]
• Mayaki Cartel^[93]
• Xaysana Cartel^[94]
• Usman Cartel^[93]

Oil smugglers^[95][96][97]

Pirates^[98]

Location: Thai–Cambodian border

• ICJ decision awards promontory of Preah Vihear to Cambodia^[99]