Portal:New Zealand/Selected article/Week 17, 2006
The Military history of New Zealand spans a period of nearly two centuries, during which New Zealand went from fighting under the control of the British Empire to fighting alongside its allies in various theatres.
Besides the wars fought on New Zealand soil, the Flagstaff War and New Zealand land wars, large numbers of New Zealand soldiers fought in the Second Boer War, World War I and World War II. Significant numbers of New Zealanders also fought in the Korean War and Vietnam War. New Zealand also participated in, or sent observers to, a number of other 20th century conflicts.
More recently, New Zealand has provided peacekeeping troops to East Timor and Solomon Islands, New Zealand Defence Force personnel from the Army, Navy and Air Force (including Special Air Service troops) have been in Afghanistan, and engineers assisted during the Iraq War.