American War of Independence (1775–1783)
Early national period (1783–1812)
War with Mexico (1846–48)
American Civil War (1861–1865)
Post-Civil War era (1865–1917)
Indian Wars (1865–1870)
Spanish-American War (1898)
Philippine-American War (1899–1902)
Banana Wars (1898–1935)
Moro Rebellion (1899–1913)
World War I (1917–1918)
World War II (1941–1945)
Cold War (1945–1991)
Korean War (1950–1953)
Vietnam War (1959–1975)
Gulf War (1991)
Kosovo War (1999)
War on [...] (2001–present)
War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
Iraq War (2003–2010)
Chinese Civil War against the Kuomintang (KMT) as the Chinese Red Army. (1927–1949)
World War II against the Empire of Japan. (1937–1945)
Yangtze Incident (the battle against British warships on the Yangtze River. (1949)
Reclaiming of Tibet (1950–1951)
Korean War (Under the banner of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army). (1950–1954)
First Taiwan Strait Crisis. (1954–1955)
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis at Quemoy and Matsu. (1958)
Sino-Indian War. (1962-1962)
Border skirmishes with India.(1967)
Vietnam War (over 320,000 Chinese soldiers served in North Vietnam throughout the war). (1965–1970)
Sino-Soviet border conflict. (1969 to 1978)
Battle of the Paracel Islands. (1974)
Sino-Vietnamese War. (1974)
Border and naval skirmishes with Vietnam. (1986,1988)
Tiananmen Square protests (1989).
Third Taiwan Strait Crisis. (1995–1996)
PLA Control of Hong Kong's Military Defense (1997)
PLA Control of Macau's Military Defense (1999)
