What were the proxy wars of the Cold War?Proxy Wars:During the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, the nations did not fight each other directly, but instead fought each other in third countries in what are sometimes called "proxy wars."...
This article considers the present 'battle for Syria', a local conflict that became a theatre for multiple proxy wars involving actors emphasising identities on various levels, most notably national, religious/ sect and ethnic. It suggests that identity content does matter, with global powers more ...
The Cold War conflict was a civil war that became a proxy battle between the superpowers as they clashed over communism and democracy.
competition were the Kingdom of France, Great Britain, and Spain. In the pursuit of territory and influence, these European powers made alliances and forged treaties with varying indigenous tribes and groups. Proxy wars among these indigenous groups and their European allies and or enemies erupted....
The two nations have fought multiple wars. When the state of Israel was established in 1948, more than 100,000 Palestinian refugees fled to Lebanon. UNRWA, the United Nations aid agency for Palestinians, says there are currently between 200,000 and 250,000 Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon...
Think about the 10.5% yearly return of the S&P 500 Index (or its predecessors) since 1926 and the fact that this would have turned $1 into over $13,000 by now, even though the period witnessed 16 recessions, one Great Depression, several wars, one World War, a global pandemic, and ma...
Such a belief is simply delusional in obvious and absolute energy fact and physics any qualified engineer understands and can quickly calculate, no models required, because the science is known, absolute, and guesses are of no merit when reality is known. The simple concept of electrical storage...
BECAUSE WE HAD COMMITTED OURSELVES TO WORK FOR FREEDOM, WE ALREADY FEEL BETTER. WE ARE NO LONGER SLAVES, WE WERE NOW FREEDOM FIGHTERS FIGHTING FOR OUR PEOPLE – Theophilus MzokumaStay updated via RSS Categories Categories Email Subscription Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and...
This complexity was assessed using three proxy indicators: infrastructure type – e.g., greenfield projects are more complex than brownfield projects; contract type – e.g., design-build-finance-operate-maintain (DBFOM) contracts are more complex than design-build (DB) contracts; and contract ...
Eventually, large-scale attempts to fix the problem are themselves opposed by the collective optimization of millions of optimizers pursuing simple goals. This opposition could take two forms. The first can be seen as a continuation of the “genuine ambiguity” mechanism. Simply because the AIs are...