Definitions for total war
to·tal war

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1. total warnoun

   Warfare where all of a country's available resources, military as well as civilian, are employed.

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1. Total war

   Total war is a war in which a belligerent engages in the complete mobilization of fully available resources and population. In the mid-19th century, "total war" was identified by scholars as a separate class of warfare. In a total war, there is less differentiation between combatants and civilians than in other conflicts, and sometimes no such differentiation at all, as nearly every human resource, civilians and soldiers alike, can be considered to be part of the belligerent effort. Total war played a major part in conflicts from the French Revolutionary Wars to World War II, but has been replaced in the modern era by cheaper, quicker and more effective policies including guerrilla warfare and the adoption of weapons of mass destruction.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of total war in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of total war in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of total war in a Sentence

1. Napoleon Bonaparte:

   My enemies are many, my equals are none. In the shade of olive trees, they said Italy could never be conquered. In the land of Pharaohs and Kings, they said Egypt could never be humbled. In the realm of forest and snow, they said Russia could never be tamed. Now they say nothing. They fear me, like a force of nature, a dealer in thunder and death! I say: I am Napoleon, I am Emperor. (Napoleon: Total War)

2. Sir Winston Churchill, March 1936, demanding British re-armament:

   Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness. A sincere love of peace is no excuse for muddling hundreds of millions of humble folk into total war. The cheers of the weak, well-meaning assemblies soon cease to count. Doom marches on.

3. Jakob Sogard Larsen:

   You see it differently when you live here, we need to learn to fight total war again.

4. Juan Manuel Santos:

   This is not a call for legalization of drugs, it is a call for recognition that between total war and legalization there exists a broad range of options worth exploring.

5. Jakob Sogard Larsen:

   We need to learn to fight total war again.

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Total_War
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=total war