Countries Britain HAS NOT been to war with?

Yes, I'm not an idiot, but modern turkey I meant that created after the Paris Peace conference. By 1923 Turkey had already overthrown the sultan, and Turkey was run by Kemal Ataturk.

... I never implied you were an idiot? So you were referring to the Turkey established in the Treaty of Sevres? That treaty did not last as Ataturk had the Treaty of Lausanne signed in 1923 in Switzerland which once again restated the borders as the Sevres Treaty was considered ridiculous. That's as modern as Turkey physically gets.

Lausanne's border changes were minor in comparison to the border changed of Sevres (which created "modern" Turkey), and Turkey's constitution predates it.

We conquered a 1/4 of the globe and have been to war with most major European powers.

So I am guessing Thailand, Switzerland, Congo and Peru?

It probably depends whether you count the territorial wars as covering land surface or you are simply naming states that we haven’t been to war with because they no longer exist or they came into being relatively recently. We didn’t go to war with the Confederate States of America for example, or the People's Republic of China, but we did have wars with the United States of America and Imperial China. And if you are at war with Spain and technically at war with her colonies (Cuba, Argentina and Mexico) do you count that as having been to war with these countries even though they had not achieved independence as sovereign states at that time? Interesting question!

Its never been at war with Russia has it? Historical wars such as against Napoleon, WW1, WW2, etc they all fought on the same side. The cold war wasn't actually a war as such, so I can't actually think of any time the two countries have been at war.

Sevres didn't create modern Turkey, unless by modern Turkey you refer to central Anatolia.

I meant the move from a Middle Eastern empire to an Anatolian nation-state.


I hate to be captious, but in military terms what it did amounted more to a bombardment. But in any case, South America after independence was an unofficial portion of the British Empire, the "Monroe Doctrine" was no more than wishful thinking on the USA's part.

These kind of doctrines only work when they're backed by force. The US was fairly successful in keeping European activity in the Caribbean to a minimum. And once the 1870s rolled around, the Montroe Doctrine was in effect de facto.

Iceland?

And using that criteria doesn't have much of a purpose since almost the entire world was controlled by half a dozen nations, so a war against the other five would ensure being at war with the entire world at some point.

Please dont bump old threads. Notified the moderators.

If it's that big of a deal why not just lock em automatically after a week?