Lar war we actually tried to win.
And we did it extremely well.
With the exception of letting Stalin take over half of Europe and a bunch of Asia, yes.
Depends on the scope of your strategic vision. I personally incline to the view put forward by Norman Podhoretz that the Cold War was WW III, fought in slow motion thanks to nuclear deterrence, and that the “Long War” (or absurdly named “Global War on Terror” is WW IV.
Yeah, we threw a campaign we should have won in Southeast Asia, and only managed to draw the campaign in Korea (each though of as their own “war” by those with a myopic view of strategy), but we won the whole thing, and Reagan’s stealth victory would make Sun Tzu proud.