Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A cikin wannan shekarun, Cold War ya ci gaba tare da rage tashin hankali tare da Tarayyar Soviet saboda manufofin Nixon na détente. Duk da yake wannan ya rage yawan ayyukan a Arewacin Atlantic, Baltic, da Jamus, shekarun da suka gabata sun kasance sau da yawa ta hanyar rikice-rikice na duniya a cikin Rumunan. Muhimmanci daga cikin wadannan sune sakamakon juyin mulkin 1969 a Libya, rikicin Jordan na 1970
, 1973 Yom Kippur War, da 1974 rikicin a Cyprus, da kuma mahara flare ups a Lebanon. Rundunar Sojojin Amurka ta shida da kawayenta na NATO sun ci gaba da kasancewa a bakin teku don mayar da martani ga duk wadannan rikice-rikicen.