total nuclear war

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total war
Warfare where all of a country's available resources, military as well as civilian, are employed
total war
war whose target is complete annihilation, war that utilizes all the means of destruction
total war
Military conflict in which the contenders mobilize all of their civilian and military resources in order to obtain a complete victory. It is distinguished from the partial commitment of lives and resources in limited war. The modern concept of total war is traced to Carl von Clausewitz, who stressed the importance of crushing the adversary's forces in battle and described wars as tending constantly to escalate in violence toward a theoretical absolute. The classic 20th-century work is Erich Ludendorff's The Total War (1935). World Wars I and II are usually regarded as total wars. After World War II, especially during the Cold War, the prospect of an all-out nuclear war made the major powers reluctant to engage in full-scale international warfare or allow their client states to do so
total nuclear war

    Hyphenation

    to·tal nu·cle·ar war

    Turkish pronunciation

    tōtıl nukliır wôr

    Pronunciation

    /ˈtōtəl ˈno͞oklēər ˈwôr/ /ˈtoʊtəl ˈnuːkliːɜr ˈwɔːr/
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