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Cold War

Great Power Failure in the ‘Hot Wars’ of the Cold War: A Strategic Theory Analysis

Wed, 03/06/2019 - 12:35am
This uses different theories to analyze why great powers were unsuccessful in the ‘hot wars’ of the Cold War, using the Soviet-Afghan War and Vietnam War as primary case studies. In both instances, the great powers were unable to overcome the paradoxes of asymmetric warfare.

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Nuclear Stability-Cyber Instability: A New Look at an Old Cold War Theory SWJED Wed, 08/29/2018 - 12:08am
As security competition looms within the re-emerging 4+1 threat environment (China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran plus the constant challenge of transnational threats), those once-archaic concepts of ‘great power war’ and ‘nuclear deterrence’ are worth revisiting.
The Guatemalan Prelude Peter J. Munson Mon, 08/06/2012 - 12:31am

The CIA’s Small War that Killed the Monroe Doctrine and Marked a New Era of American Diplomacy  

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