Countries engage in proxy wars in order to:
a. push rival countries to drop out of long term arms race.
b. protect their weaker allies from potential destructive conflicts.
c. promote their interests without directly engaging with each other.
d. avoid interference from their countries’ military-industrial complexes.

D

Explanation:

Multiple proxy wars stood in for actual conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Korean War, Vietnam War, and a number of other armed conflicts, during which both sides either funded one side of the war or fought directly against a communist or capitalist force, are all considered Cold War proxies.

cuban communists pressured the soviet union to place missiles in cuba.

it took two men to wrestle rome back from chaos and turn a republic into an empire. in the first century bc, rome was a republic. power lay in the hands of the senate, elected by roman citizens. but the senators were fighting for power between themselves.