How did the cold war change the nature of war?

World War II was viewed as such a conflict, and so was the Cold War. Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union an evil empire, which it undoubtedly was. And U.S. President George W. Bush has denounced terrorism as evil, which it undoubtedly is. Yet, while recognizing that we are in a conflict over values, the nature of that conflict has been overlooked. read more

The post–Cold War world is an economically interlinked one where the field of battle may well take the form of trade and monetary policies more than that of conventional warfare. By this definition of fundamental change, one can reasonably defend either side of the question, but perhaps a stronger case can be made that the post–Cold War period has witnessed a fundamental change in the nature of war. read more