The United States recognised Angola only in 1993, after cold-shouldering its Russian-backed government for the previous 20 years during the Cold War.
Some of these wars are the result of a geopolitical shaking-out after the cold war, and so might be expected to abate.
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After the cold war ended, though, this self-regulating and rather self-important culture has come under scrutiny.
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They also converted the first four vessels in the class to cruise-missile launchers with no nuclear role after the Cold War ended, which is why there are only 14 Ohios carrying ballistic missiles today rather than the 18 that were built.
The Arctic is also reappearing in national-security debates after falling off military radars with the Cold War's end.
Because 20 years after the end of the Cold War, the U.S.-Russian relationship has to be about more than just security and arms control.
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After WWII the U.S. faced unprecedented challenges--the emerging Cold War with the Soviet Union and the rebuilding and democratizing of shattered Europe and Japan.
Two decades after the end of the Cold War, we face a cruel irony of history -- the risk of a nuclear confrontation between nations has gone down, but the risk of nuclear attack has gone up.
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Where after the war Attlee established the case for the NHS, state education and a welfare state, Thatcher, after the industrial wars of the 70s and the Cold War, won the arguments for a market-based economy, the private ownership of key industries and services, limits on trade union power and a strong defence policy based on the Atlantic Alliance.
The entire trip, after all, is primarily aimed at thawing the U.S.-India estrangement that dates from the Cold War, when New Delhi was close to Moscow.
Even George Bush, no dewy-eyed disarmer, negotiated cuts down to 1, 700-2, 200 apiece by 2012 (from the 6, 000 agreed upon after the cold war had ended) and was ready to go lower.
The shocking state of large swaths of the existing Eisenhower Interstate Highway System, which our late president rightly implemented as a Cold War hedge to ensure rapid military mobilization after a surprise attack or for speedy logistics re-supply in the event of regional civil emergencies.
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