Yes, the Korean war was the biggest with soldiers from dozens of countries dying in action, with a localised theatre.
But how many of those civil wars were hot parts of the Cold War? Can we not lump them into a single Cold War total?
The death toll of the world wars is huge, but equally the death tolls of the strife across Saharan and Central Africa and the Middle East isn’t insignificant. Do we just leave it off the record because the combatants are only our proxies? Fighting with our guns, for our benefit, rather than a war on land we’ve yet to relinquish control over?
Edit: though I’ve gone on a massive tangent.
My original point that I let my mind forget and spout off on a tangent, was that there have been lots of wars with coalitions of allies feeding arms to the sides, as we now see in Ukraine in the intervening 70 years. Just less close to home.
Yes, the Korean war was the biggest with soldiers from dozens of countries dying in action, with a localised theatre.
But how many of those civil wars were hot parts of the Cold War? Can we not lump them into a single Cold War total?
The death toll of the world wars is huge, but equally the death tolls of the strife across Saharan and Central Africa and the Middle East isn’t insignificant. Do we just leave it off the record because the combatants are only our proxies? Fighting with our guns, for our benefit, rather than a war on land we’ve yet to relinquish control over?
Edit: though I’ve gone on a massive tangent. My original point that I let my mind forget and spout off on a tangent, was that there have been lots of wars with coalitions of allies feeding arms to the sides, as we now see in Ukraine in the intervening 70 years. Just less close to home.