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Confrontation is het dertiende en laatste studioalbum van de Jamaicaanse reggaegroep Bob Marley & The Wailers, postuum uitgebracht in mei 1983, twee jaar na Marleys dood. De nummers op het album werden samengesteld uit onuitgebracht materiaal en onuitgebrachte singles, opgenomen tijdens Marleys leven. Het bekendste nummer van het album is "Buffalo Soldier", dat een jaar later werd opgenomen in het compilatiealbum Legend. Aan de binnenkant van het album is een artistieke voorstelling te zien van de Slag bij Adwa, waar Ethiopische strijdkrachten in 1896 Italië versloegen. De albumhoes stelt Bob Marley voor die Babylon, een symbool voor onderdrukking in het rastafarigeloof, doodt.

Confrontation is the thirteenth and final studio album by Bob Marley & the Wailers and the only one to be released posthumously in May 1983, two years after Marley's death. The songs were compiled from unreleased material and singles recorded during Marley's lifetime. Many of the tracks were built up from demos, most notably "Jump Nyabinghi" where vocals from the I-Threes were added, which were not there when Marley released the song as a dubplate in 1979. In addition the harmony vocals on "Blackman Redemption" and "Rastaman Live Up" are performed by the I-Threes in order to give the album a consistent sound – on the original single versions they are performed by the Meditations. The most famous track on the album is "Buffalo Soldier".

The album cover depicts Bob Marley taking the role as the military saint Saint George slaying the dragon which symbolizes Babylon. Perhaps not coincidentally, this motif was also displayed on the reverse of the imperial standard of Rastafari icon Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, though the direct model for the album art is a British recruitment poster from World War I. Inside the album sleeve is an artist's depiction of the Battle of Adowa where Ethiopian forces defeated Italy in 1896.