When was the last war between two English speaking countries?

by motorised_rollingham

I mean large scale wars, so less defined conflicts like The Troubles (Northern Ireland) dont count. Further questions:

Which countries should we define as English speaking? Obviously we can include countries like Jamaica or New Zealand, but what about countries where other languages are spoken too, like Singapore, India or Nigeria?
(Assuming there haven't been any wars for a while) Why is this?
(Assuming there haven't been any wars for a while) Is the same true for other languages, for example French speaking countries?

Gama_Rex

If you include countries that have English as an official language, you're looking at the Kargil War, also known as the Third Indo-Pakistani War, in 1999. (I hope just mentioning it doesn't violate 20 year rule) That said, one could credibly argue that you should not count India and Pakistan as English-Speaking, official language or not.

I suppose with the more narrow take the Irish War of Independence 1919-1921 is your answer.

intangible-tangerine

[Here is a rough-guide to one system linguists use to classify which countries are English speaking] (http://www.fb10.uni-bremen.de/anglistik/linguistik/images/lehrerausbildung500.gif) for the purposes of your question I'd narrow it to the inner circle (United Kingdom, Ireland, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand)