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“Since 1947, official American policy towards the Soviet Union had been one of containment short of war; but the same geostrategic principles did not…

— Malcolm H. Murfett

Now that the Cold War is over with, it's kind of hard to take the Soviet Union seriously. We won, period. We ran them…

— John Mearsheimer

Although the U.S.-Soviet rivalry was global in scope, its center of gravity was the Iron Curtain in Europe, where both sides had massive armies…

— John Mearsheimer

“Cold War. China, though technically an ally of the Soviet Union, was in quest of maneuvering”

— Henry Kissinger

During the Cold War, tensions between the West and the Soviet Union affected virtually all countries worldwide. As a result, throughout Latin America, guerrilla…

— Juan Manuel Santos

The Army I grew up in was focused on high-intensity conflict against a peer competitor called the Soviet Union.

— Mark Esper

“In part because Americans were fearful of enemies within, they went looking for enemies abroad. War and conquest have served to distract nations from…

— Evan Thomas

“A clear look back on the Cold War's battlegrounds, along with a sense of relief that the world survived forty-five years of confrontation, evokes…

— Anonymous

“This was a matter of some small group of guerrillas in some distant caves, a primitive, fanatical, and desperate people who didn't have the…

— Isabel Allende

When the United States worked to contain the Soviet Union during the Cold War, we went to enormous lengths to get as many countries…

— John Mearsheimer

The United States has been utilizing what may prove to be the most historically inept strategy in the entire history of warfare, in which…

— Theodore Beale

If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans,…

— Omar Bongo