ABSTRACT
Conflict between non-Western powers was no mere postscript to the history of war in this period. It is helpful to treat such conflicts as in some way simply adjuncts of the Cold War. That element was indeed important, not least owing to the provision of weapons, munitions, finance, training and advice by the protagonists in the Cold War, but the conflicts between non-Western powers also had an autonomy in cause, course and consequence. Wars in the Middle East tend to dominate attention under the heading of conflict between non-Western powers. Border clashes were sometimes intertwined with insurrectionary movements. This was the case with the India-Pakistan war over Kashmir in 1947-8. Libyan military intervention on behalf of Amin could not sway the struggle, but, again, helped to locate it, in terms of Cold War rivalries. The internal use of force was central to the military history of much of the world, although it both militarized society and compromised military professionalism.
