How much of a role did Reagan's defense spending play in destabilizing the Soviet Union?
Does the Vietnam War constitute a failure of Containment or vindication of it?
To what extent should we revise the more Amero-centric views of Soviet aggression during the Cold War as those events become more historical and less political? For example, the traditional view of the Cuban Missile Crisis typically centers around the notion that the Soviets put missiles into Cuba to gain a decisive and destabilizing edge against the United States but we now know that the Soviets saw those missiles as parity to the US missiles in Turkey and that, without them, Soviet missile capabilities were essentially incapable of a large scale strike on the United States.