Editing Conventional warfare (section)

===Since World War II===
The state and Clausewitzian principles peaked in the [[World Wars]], during the 20th century, but they also laid the groundwork for their dilapidation from [[nuclear proliferation]]. During the [[Cold War]], the [[superpowers]] sought to avoid open conflict between their respective forces, as both sides recognized that such a clash could very easily escalate and quickly involve nuclear weapons. Instead, the superpowers fought each other through their involvement in [[proxy wars]], military buildups, and diplomatic standoffs. Thus, no two [[nuclear powers]] have yet fought a conventional war [[proxy war|directly]] except for two brief skirmishes between China and Soviet Union in the 1969 [[Sino-Soviet conflict (1969)|Sino-Soviet conflict]] and between [[India]] and [[Pakistan]] in the 1999 [[Kargil War]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Yu |first=Miles |date=2022-12-13 |title=The 1969 Sino-Soviet Border Conflicts As A Key Turning Point Of The Cold War |url=https://www.hoover.org/research/1969-sino-soviet-border-conflicts-key-turning-point-cold-war |access-date=2024-01-17 |website=Hoover}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |year=2023 |title=The Kargil War: a war that defied all odds |url=https://www.gallantryawards.gov.in/assets/uploads/home_banner/FinalKargil_Mainwriteup-2023-07-25.pdf |journal=Gallantry Awards}}</ref>

However, conventional wars have been fought since 1945 between countries without nuclear weapons, such as the [[Iran–Iraq War]] and [[Eritrean–Ethiopian War]], or between a nuclear state and a weaker non-nuclear state, like the [[Gulf War]] and [[Russo-Ukrainian War]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-11-07 |title=Are Ethiopia and Eritrea on the Path to War? |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/11/07/ethiopia-eritrea-war-tplf/ |access-date=2024-01-17 |website=Foreign Policy}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Tillema |first=Herbert |year=1989 |title=Foreign Overt Military Intervention in the Nuclear Age |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/423868 |journal=Journal of Peace Research |volume=26 |issue=2 |pages=179–196|doi=10.1177/0022343389026002006 |jstor=423868 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Consequences of Conflict: The Russia-Ukraine War and the Gulf |url=https://gulfif.org/consequences-of-conflict-the-russia-ukraine-war-and-the-gulf/ |access-date=2024-01-17 |website=Gulfid|date=29 March 2022 }}</ref>