The collection of articles is devoted to describing the course of hostilities and the main results of the most significant local armed conflicts abroad in the period after 1991. The book includes 11 articles containing a description of the fight against the Tamil uprising in Sri Lanka in 1980–2009; wars between North and South Yemen in 1994; armed conflict between Peru and Ecuador in 1995; a long civil war involving neighboring states in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; armed conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea in 1998–1999; clashes between India and Pakistan in Kargil in 1999; NATO's military campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999; US and NATO operations in Afghanistan since 2001; the US military invasion of Iraq in 2003; Israel's military campaign in Lebanon in 2006; civil war and US and NATO military intervention in Libya in 2011