X-Nico

unusual facts about proxy war



My Heart of Darkness

Together with three other war veterans, black Africans Samuel Machado Amaru, Patrick Johannes and Mario Mahonga, he travels up the river Cuando to the place of one of the last proxy war scenes of the Cold War.

World War III

Norman Podhoretz has suggested that the Cold War can be identified as World War III because it was fought, although by proxy, on a global scale, with the main combatants, the United States and later NATO, and the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact countries providing political, military and economic support while only occasionally engaging in direct combat.


see also

The Quiet War

Laotian Civil War The proxy war in the Kingdom of Laos between 1953 and 1975