A few hundred officers, training missions, and nobody calls it a war.
These crises cross borders. A National badge means each government owns its response, not that the consequences are domestic.
Foreign officers are now shaping the war on both sides of the line.
The powers are ordered to settle Berlin's status or face unilateral action.
Withdrawal has not settled who controls the canal or whether old imperial guarantees still carry force.
Tankers are rerouting, stocks are falling, and governments must choose between rationing and confrontation.
Commanders have minutes to decide whether the warning is attack, accident, or instrumentation failure.
CONFLICTS · THE WORLD AT WAR
Every shooting war is a front in one larger one — the Cold War itself sits over all of them.