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The Cold War's Proxy Conflicts: Ideology, Oil, and the Limits of Superpower Control
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What the Superpowers Actually Wanted from the Proxy Wars
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Korea: The Test Case for Limited War
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Vietnam: How an Ideological Framing Became a Strategic Trap
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Angola: Where Cuban Soldiers, Oil Revenue, and Superpower Chess Converged
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Latin America: How the Cold War Made Coup Culture Respectable
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The Legacy: What the Proxy Wars Left Behind
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The Cold War's Proxy Conflicts: Ideology, Oil, and the Limits of Superpower Control
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The Cold War was supposed to be a simple binary: two superpowers, two ideologies, two models for organizing society. The proxy wars told a more complicated story. In Korea, Vietnam, Angola, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, and dozens of smaller conflicts, the United States and Soviet Union competed for influence through local actors they couldn't fully control. Both superpowers discovered, repeatedly, that providing weapons and ideology to local forces doesn't mean you control those forces' goals. This series examines six dimensions of Cold War proxy conflict: what the superpowers were really after, how Korea established the template for limited war, how Vietnam became an ideological trap, how Angola revealed the intersection of oil and ideology, how Latin America developed a coup culture the Cold War made respectable, and what all of it left behind.
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