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Total war

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Noun
  1. 1
    Warfare where all of a country's available resources, military as well as civilian, are employed. countable, uncountable

    "In the course of its crisis the young French Republic discovered or invented total war: the total mobilization of a nation's resources through conscription, rationing and a rigidly controlled war economy, and virtual abolition, at home or abroad, of the distinction between soldiers and civilians."

Etymology

Calque of German totaler Krieg, coined by Erich Ludendorff.

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