total wars

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Definition of total wars in English Turkish dictionary
Total war: (Askeri) genel harp
total war: Topyekün savaş
total war: (Askeri) TOPYEKÜN SAVAŞ: Bu terim kullanılmayacaktır. Bak "general war"
total war: (Askeri) topyekun harp
total war: topyekûn savaş

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Definition of total wars in English English dictionary: plural form of total war
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 wars

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to·tal wars

tōtıl wôrz

/ˈtōtəl ˈwôrz/ /ˈtoʊtəl ˈwɔːrz/

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