The Cold War superpowers competed through proxy wars in Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan rather than direct military confrontation.
Sources
- Outline of the Cold War (en.wikipedia.org)
- https://www.britannica.com/event/Cold-War (britannica.com)
- https://theconversation.com/whats-a-cold-war-a-historian-explains-how-rivals-us-and-soviet-union-competed-off-the-battlefield-192238 (theconversation.com)
- https://historycrunch.com/proxy-wars-in-the-cold-war/ (historycrunch.com)
- https://geopol.uk/concepts/proxy-war/ (geopol.uk)
- https://polsci.institute/peace-conflict-studies/proxy-war-indirect-conflict-political-implications/ (polsci.institute)
- https://education.cfr.org/learn/reading/eight-hot-wars-during-cold-war (education.cfr.org)
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