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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5577664" data-attributes="member: 4937">What version of history did you read?  To name just a few battles of the Cold War:Korean WarHungarian RevolutionGuatamalan coup d'etatCongo CrisisCuban RevolutionWar in VietnamUS Invasion of the Dominican RepublicIndonesian Civil WarSoviet Invasion of CzechoslaviciaChilean coup d'etatAngolan War of IndependenceSoviet Invasion of AfghanistanUS Invasion of GrenadaBoth sides of the conflict declared that they would intervene militarily whenever their preferred economic system was replaced in another country by that of their rivals.  This lead to a very very large number of so called 'proxy wars' where both sides attempted to influence by force the government resulting from innumerable wars of national liberation that were occuring in the collapse of European colonialism, and both sides attempted to ferment revolution within the economic sphere of their rival.   Even ignoring things like Spain and China which resulted from interwar military interventions, deaths resulting from the 'Cold War' numbered in the millions, and like many wars continued after the official war was over.  Those fallout deaths are ongoing to this day.  For example, the current war in Libya is fallout from the Soviet backed intervention in Libya, the current government being no more than a Soviet installed client dictatorship whose mercenary forces have origins in Cuba.   The current war in Afghanistan is largely fallout from the Soviet Invasion of Aghanistan and resulting US push-back.  Even the 'culture war' in America is by some reconning little more that the fallout from the propaganda war between the two nations as both sides spent billions on memetic weapons.While direct conflict between the two rivals was rare due to the fear of the conflict escalating to nuclear, USA and USSR troops did on occasion directly engage each other.  In most cases, both sides choose not to inform their public of the encounters for fear of inflaming their public.  One of the most notable examples was that during the Vietnamese war, the USSR was not only supplying the planes but the pilots to fly the planes, which meant that when the USA engaged Migs over Vietnam often as not it was direct conflict between the two militaries.I don't disagree, afterall, if everyone was agreeing with the bloggers thesis, I'd probably be disagreeing with it.   I'm merely backing the idea that playing a war game could lead to glorification of violence and feelings that war was an appropriate and even desirable means of conflict resolution.   In truth though, I definately don't believe that this is inevitable.</blockquote>

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