Cold War vs War on Terror

The Cold War (1947-1991) was a 44-year ideological and geopolitical struggle between the Soviet Union and United States, while the War on Terror (2001-present) is a 23-year military campaign against non-state terrorist organizations led primarily by the U.S. The Cold War involved two superpowers with nuclear arsenals in a stalemate; the War on Terror targets distributed networks without a central state adversary.