Quotes from Richard Nixon book, The Real War

"World War III began before World War II ended. Even as allied armies battled Nazi forces to the death in Europe, Stalin had his eye clearly fixed on his postwar objectives. In April 1945, as American and Russian soldiers were embracing at the Elbe River in Germany, Stalin was spelling out his blueprint for a divided postwar world. "This war is not as in the past," he said, "whoever occupies a territory also imposes on it his own social system as far as his army can reach. It cannot be otherwise." (p.19)

"World War III has proceeded from the Soviet seizure of Eastern Europe, through the communist conquest of China, the wars in Korea and IndoChina, and the establishment of Soviet power in Cuba, to the present thrusts by the
Soviet Union and its allies into Africa, the Islamic crescent, and Central America. The expansionism has been accompanied by a prodigious military buildup that has brought the Soviet Union to the verge of decisive supremacy over the West.....

"World War III is the first truly global war. No corner of the earth is beyond its reach. The United States and the Soviet Union have both become global powers, and whatever affects the balance between us anywhere affects the balance everywhere. The Soviets understand this. We too must understand it, and learn to think in global terms." (p. 21)

........Richard Nixon, The Real War (1979)