The Cold War's Proxy Battlegrounds

They called it a Cold War. For fourteen to twenty million people, it was simply the war that killed them.

For forty-four years, the United States and the Soviet Union never fired a single shot at each other. Not one American soldier ever faced a Soviet soldier in open battle. Instead, the two superpowers fought their war on someone else’s ground, with someone else’s sons, in Korea and Vietnam, the Congo and Guatemala, Chile and Angola, Mozambique and Afghanistan, Nica…