Napoleon was long dead by the beginning of the cold war.
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The main "isms" of the Cold War were Socialism and Communism, both of which came up against Capitalism.
The Vietnam conflict was a type of proxy war, in that our Cold War foe, Russia, heavily subsidized Communist North Vietnam in their fight with U.S. forces.
Fear of Nuclear War Fight against Communism / Spread of Communism
There are lots of wars all the time, particularly civil wars, but the major war which followed the Cold War is known as the War On Terror; the wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan are part of that larger struggle against international terrorism.
The Vietnam war was a warm part of the cold war.