A Cold War is when there is actually not any fighting, just arguing and distrust. A "Hot War" is when there is lots of fighting and it is "hotting up" between the enemies.
A hot war is actual fighting (actual killing). A cold war is not a war at all; the name "cold war" was simply a TERM chosen to title the "military stand-off" between the free world and the communist...
Hot war is war in the normal sense of the word, in which two nations are engaged in direct military conflict, trying to kill each other's soldiers and to win battles, either for outright conquest, or...
Cold wars are based on spy tactics, indirect conflicts (both sides don't actually fight each other, just the allies) and compitition (Space race)
War war is a direct military conflict between the...