### Comment:
Yeah, but I'm talking about 'losing' arms and technology.  Proxy-war style. 
  
 Old China was a trickier beast, as was communism at the time.  I think the US was hesitant to intervene in hardline communist countries due to fear of burgeoning support for communist regimes.

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&gt;US was hesitant to intervene in hardline communist countries due to fear of burgeoning support for communist regimes 
  
 what? 
  
 I'm guessing you think this changed sometime after Korea and Vietnam? and that we aren't going to count proxy engagements like Afghanistan, the African civil wars and the Latin/Central American conflicts?

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