Talk:Cold war (term)

message: If you must combine these articles, they need to be under Cold War, not Cold war, as The Cold War was a specific war and hence a proper noun. --nknight 13:00 Jan 17, 2003 (UTC)
I don't think the Taiwan issue qualifies as a cold war. It's more of an unresolved civil war. --Jiang 20:44 21 Jul 2003 (UTC)
All linking articles about the Cold War have now been redirected to Cold War. --GCarty 17:30 2 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Regarding moving this to Wiktionary, essentially it's the equivalent of what many folks have wanted to do -- merge this with Cold War (proper) and explain the concept of a Cold war within that article.  Jiang is correct re: China vs. Taiwan, is not referred to as a cold war.  It's a continuation of civil war that goes back to the early part of the 20th century.  Greece and Turkey were seen as critical countries during the Cold War because the USSR would see it as a NATO weakness if there was a conflict, but as such, they are not referred to widely as being involved in a cold war.  That said, there is no real reason for this article to exist alone.  It should be merged with the Cold War article. Fuzheado 07:39, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Older comments

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:The Cuban Missle Crisis was part of the Cold War, and is not usually in itself considered a cold war. Wikiacc (?) 17:00, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cold War-  Cuban Missile Crisis 

message: Is the situation between India and Pakistan not considered a cold war?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by THE DJA (talk • contribs) 11:57, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  India - Pakistan 

message: Isn't it supposed to be United States and Israel vs. Iran, or am I missing something here? Sirius85 (talk) 18:50, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: What?

message: Which came first: the war tactic or the conflict? Did the term inspire the name of the conflict or did the conflict inspire the term? 76.179.52.183 (talk) 18:24, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Chicken or Egg

message: From the article:
"1871–1914: United Kingdom, France, and Russian Empire vs. Germany and Austria–Hungary set off by the formation of the German Empire, which politically and geographically challenged the older empires of Europe." I disagree with the Russian Empire standing on the side of France and the UK. The 'Dreikaiserbund' in 1873 established quite a strong relationship between Germany, Austria and Russia. It was only in the last years before WW1 that Russia moved over to the France-UK side, starting with the Franco-Russian alliance in 1893.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.240.84.155 (talk) 14:01, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: A good point, and I have altered the text (and the start date) accordingly. Beyond My Ken (talk) 17:31, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Russian Empire

message: Anders Stephanson from Columbioa University quite efficiently and comprehensively disproves the notion of Don Juan being the primal source of the term.
See this link to his essay., I shall also post it to the 'See Also'. 195.35.252.14 (talk) 16:13, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: "New" Theories on the Etymology

message: *Oppose A separate  Cold War II makes logical sense, because it is a "legitimate" successor, a "resurgence" of Cold War. The rest of "cold wars" are not. Staszek Lem (talk) 17:16, 20 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: I invite you to the discussion. --George Ho (talk) 03:29, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[template talk:Cold War#RfC: "Cold War II" in the navigation template]] 

message: I have a document which was written by the Chief of Signal Intelligence for the Germans during World War 2. General Albert Praun. Praun was the Chief Signal Officer of Army High Command and of Supreme Command of Armed Forces (). Essentially the top guy for Signal Intelligence for the Germans during WW 2. The document was written by him in March 1950, as Homework for TICOM and the document was so important that it was classified by the NSA up until 28th January 2014, when it was released. The document is written as a history of the radio intelligence and intercept service, and in the introduction, he explicitly details the phrase: cold war of the air waves. It is possibly the origin of the term. It was very important document, which carried weight, from an important man, with the American military industrial complex. Could be. I have a feeling it is, as it was in there..scope_creep (talk) 15:12, 6 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Likely origin of term ''Cold War''

message: Many commentators have described the state of the U.S. and elsewhere as a "cold civil war", suggesting that the term "cold war" can also refer to conflicts between opposing factions within a country rather than just one between nations as is given in the opening sentence.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pinus jeffreyi (talk • contribs) 00:20, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Cold civil wars

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: moved as proposed since the original request to remove "general" from the title has gone uncontested. There is no consensus on the secondary question of whether to remove the disambiguation altogether.  (closed by non-admin page mover) Extraordinary Writ (talk) 05:03, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Cold war (general term) →  – There's no need to say "general" here. This is the only article on enwiki that uses the disambiguator "general term", while 29 use just "term". I don't see why this should be any different. (N.B.: This is a somewhat unusual case where WP:DIFFCAPS has not been invoked [ → Cold War], but I agree with that status quo. DIFFCAPS is ill-suited for cases where the only difference is the first letter of the second word in a two-word phrase, where many readers won't make a distinction between capitalizing or not capitalizing that letter.)  -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (she/they) 00:56, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 10 January 2022 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) – MaterialWorks 17:07, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Cold war (term) →  – Per WP:DIFFCAPS, WP:NCCPT and WP:CONCISE, like the Islamic State and the Islamic state. Parham wiki (talk) 09:32, 31 August 2023 (UTC)

text: Note: WikiProject International relations has been notified of this discussion. ModernDayTrilobite (talk • contribs) 13:45, 7 September 2023 (UTC)

text: Note: WikiProject Military history has been notified of this discussion. ModernDayTrilobite (talk • contribs) 13:45, 7 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 31 August 2023