While this situation may lead to a suspension of war between the nuclear powers (or so we all must hope), it scarcely prevents them from engaging in military adventures outside their own territorial domains. The two superpowers in particular engage in what might be called “orchestrated wars” in peripheral areas of military strength. By these I mean military encounters, with the governments of other states or with guerilla movements or both, in which the troops of the superpower are not necessarily even engaged at all, but where that power is a prime organising influence.

DEFINE: Introduces the concept of 'orchestrated wars' — conflicts where a superpower organizes but does not necessarily directly field troops.

Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Moderni…, loc. 187