what attributes distinguish the cold war from other kinds of war you know about?

Question

what attributes distinguish the cold war from other kinds of war you know abuot?

Answer 1

its a branch of the new type of warfare of the 20th century. the warfare of hte 20th century is characterized as brutal, ruthless and unethical. civilians became the new targets. it started with ww1 and the trench warfares. in the trenches, you're shooting at a random person, you don't know who you're target is so there's no honor, b/c you're killing desperately, you're living in trenches during the war, you're desperate to survive. you go to any resorts to survive, and you'll kill your enemy aimlessly. that removes any honor from warfare. theres severe bravery involved in that there are new technological advancements that are beign employed in the battlefield and you're using a gun to protect yourself against these massive tanks. so yea.

previously, before the 20th cent., civilians were never harmed, you acn have a battle in front of your hom and only the soldiers would be targeted. since civilans became involved, warfare took on a whole new idea. (too lengthy and hard to explain).

in ww2 there was the german blitzkrieg, "thunder and lightning warfare" wtith air raids bombing towns, not military camps. there were sonars detecting submarines and radars detecting airplanes. there was the bombing of hiroshima on innocent people who would in no way affect the sucess of ww2 for the allies or the axis. civilians are the new targets.

teh cold war ws the first nuclear exchange, that brought warfare to a whole new level. instead of warfare being about bravery and honor and defending your home land it was transferred to expoiting science, nuclear chemistry. so yea, expand on this idea more tahn the above ones. the above ones are comparisons to the cold war

Answer 2

The Cold War was a war in which the principal contenders,the then superpowers USSR and USA were actually not the ones doing the combat but were merely supporting each side of the conflict between communism and capitalism (e.g. in Korea,Vietnam,etc.).

It was also expressed as an arms race in which the superpowers continually upgrades each other nuclear arsenal evident of their testing atomic bomb causing considerable shockwave around the world (as in the case of Novaya Zemlya test).

It was also expressed in the space race were the two superpowers engaged in a contest of putting up artificial satellites and man in space,began by launching Sputnik in 1957.

Answer 3

Well the obvious one is that the principal powers on the two sides were not actually shooting at each other. It was more a rivalry and armed hostility than a "war" in the conventional sense of combat.