Security During The Cold War

According to Kant, “anything” can start a war. The natural state is the state of war. That what happened in the cold war, the war between the United Stated of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) or known as Soviet Union. It was a lengthy struggle by the two superpowers that began in the aftermath of the surrender of Hitler’s Germany. Nazi’s aggression in 1941 towards the USSR makes the Soviet regime to become the ally of the western democracies but unfortunately after the post – war, because of different views, the two allies had become great enemies. The United States and USSR build their influence in the European countries thus divide the world into two opposing camps.

The cold war was not only the struggle of the two superpowers

The efforts to find new concepts and theories of security are the response to the changes in the international system after the end of the cold war. During the cold war era was the world divided into three, first the western democracies, second the communist USSR and the third world country that consist of other developing countries. According to Klauss Knorr in his book “National Security Studies: Scope and Structure of the field, traditional National security studies during the cold war were mainly based on military issues and their relation to economic, technological, political factors within the “national framework”; and the nature and distribution of power-military power, that is-, and the use of these force among other issues at the international level. This we can see from United States National Security Policy, instead of maintaining a large standing force, Truman favored mobilization of reserve forces in the traditional American fashion of “declare and then prepare” for war. Despite claiming global role for America, the national security strategy exploited only one aspect of the military as a national instrument of power, one the US ended up not being able to