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The order's all screwed up. For starters, the Seven Years' War (1756–1763) should have been WW1.I agree. To call this WW3 means Vietnam should have been WW3 and this WW4. This has a smaller number of combatant nations than Vietnam or, as SpitRz says, Korea and the Gulf wars. Less combatant nations than even the Malayan war.
The United States wasn't in that one, so it doesn't count.The order's all screwed up. For starters, the Seven Years' War (1756–1763) should have been WW1.
Well said, though future US leaders, including brigadier generals (and future POTUS1) George Washington and Horatio Gates (victor at Saratoga) served with distinction under British colours fighting the French in the Americas, as did colonel William Alexander (ex-Lord Stirling) who later played an important role at the Battle of Long Island, as well as the future US leader at Bunker Hill, major general Israel Putnam. The Seven Years War saw men fighting across the globe, from Quebec, Canada to Plassey, Bengal, to Mato Grosso, Brazil. It should be regarded as WW1, or in better parlance, the First World War.The United States wasn't in that one, so it doesn't count.
So then the Gulf War was a World War?The fact that dozens of countries from around the globe are involved albeit indirectly through providing support