YSK: What a Proxy War is.
YSK: What a Proxy War is.
With the recent event the US just pulled, it is a good idea to freshen up or learn what a Proxy War is and is not.
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In political science, a proxy war is an armed conflict where at least one of the belligerents is directed or supported by an external third-party power. In the term proxy war, a belligerent with external support is the proxy; both belligerents in a proxy war can be considered proxies if both are receiving foreign military aid from a third party country. Acting either as a nation-state government or as a conventional force, a proxy belligerent acts in behalf of a third-party state sponsor.[1]
That’s a very loose definition of a proxy war, by that metric basically any war since globalisation is a proxy war.
by that metric basically any war since globalisation is a proxy war
I would argue that practically every war since globalization is a proxy war.
Arguably that is true though.