He had donned a second wetsuit to fight the cold, but his teeth still chattered uncontrollably.
But the cold war, hitherto a fight for influence in Europe and Latin America, had now acquired a Middle Eastern axis, and Jews and Arabs were at its centre.
An October 7, 1912 Los Angeles Times feature proclaimed "Fifth Ice Age is on the Way: Human Race Will Have to Fight for Existence in Cold".
After the war, the British and French refused to give up their colonies without a fight, and the Soviet Union fueled a Cold War by attempting to restore, and build upon, the older czarist empire in eastern Europe and southern and western Asia.
Within a few years of defeating Germany and Japan, growing antagonism between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union and the ensuing Cold War resurrected the strategic requirement that U.S. forces be able to fight multiple, geographically dispersed, and possibly simultaneous conflicts.
Libya started to come in from the cold around 2003 by relinquishing its weapons of mass destruction program, agreeing to help fight terrorism and later paying large sums to the families of terrorism victims, including those killed in the airliner bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, for which a Libyan was convicted.
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There are those who see the fight against al-Qaeda as a war like the second world war or the cold war.
Two countries that would engage in a Cold War by the 1950s were, in the early 1940s, vitally important to each other in the fight against Germany.
Our current posture as John Hamre mentioned, still reflects in many ways the mentality and reality of the Cold War era, during which US forces deployed forward were defensive, tripwire units that were expected to fight near where they were based.
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