Syria looks set to become the latest in several overseas military operations for Britain in recent years, as lawmakers prepare Wednesday to vote to join air strikes against the Islamic State group. Following the Falklands War in 1982 under then prime minister Margaret Thatcher and the 1990-91 Gulf War, years passed before a series of military engagements ordered by Labour premier Tony Blair under the banner of "humanitarian intervention" and the "war on terror". Britain joined the 1999 NATO-led air strikes in the Kosovo war.