Adm. Woolsey refers to the Cold War as WWIII and this war as WWIV. Take your pick.
Adm. Woolsey is wrong.
I was involved in the cold war. Are you and the Adm. trying to rewrite history?
Semper Fi
An Old Man
compared to WWI and WWII, hot wars with major military mobilizations within all involved countries and active invasions/combat along said borders with monstrous casualties and devastation (especially WWII), it really is hard to say the cold war was a similar thing rather than a decades-long stated of armed readiness with periodic proxy wars in far-away places. This so even if an admiral thinks otherwise.