Forgotten war

"The Forgotten War" (capitalized) typically refers to:




 * The Korean War (in the United States and Canada)
 * The Ifni War (in Spain)
 * The resistance in Baltic countries, see Forest Brothers

The term forgotten war is also sometimes, though much less commonly and less specifically, used to refer to:
 * The Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War
 * The Philippine–American War
 * The War of 1812 (outside of North America)
 * The First and Second Barbary Wars
 * The conflicts involving Finland during World War II
 * The Laotian Civil War (outside of Laos)

When used as a descriptive term (a forgotten war), the term has broader use. The term "forgotten war" is occasionally applied by historians to other wars and conflicts. Historiographically speaking, the term typically implies that the public recognition of said war is considered to be disproportionately low in relation to the perceived historical significance of the conflict in the eyes of the historians in question. Thus, numerous other wars in history are sometimes called "forgotten wars", sometimes as a dramatic mechanism to garner attention to a particular book, article, or documentary on the subject. Used in this way, the term can be used with only local or regional context, or can be used as a general adjective. National, regional, and global histories may differ as to using the term. There is thus no definitive definition of the criteria that a war or conflict must have in order to be classified as "forgotten", and thus it is a subjective historical term.