Both are responsible for each of the many "proxy wars" fought between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Vietnam was a proxy war, sure the North Vietnamese fought the South Vietnamese but who was actually fighting? The U.S. and Russia of course. In North Korea, the U.S. and the former Soviet Union fought. We fight against Communism and its ultimate goal of defeating Democracy. The Cold War was fought between the 2 global superpowers, the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The Soviets fought other countries. An example would be Germany (Oct. 2015.)
The advantages of modernization theory are that it accurately describes a process common to the development of different societies.
I believe it is a means to harvest the area of all timber, which can be beneficial for economic reasons and the ecosystem