It may be a brushfire operation or an operation on the scale of the Korean war; it will certainly not involve the home territories of the United States and Soviet Russia as theaters of hostilities.
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Brushfire
Synonyms for "brushfire"
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I grant you it may not be in the actual application of mechanical devices, but if you have the volume to have supremacy in a major war it is obvious you would have the volume to take care of a brushfire war.
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If a brushfire conflict does threaten superpower interests, or the general peace, a superpower may intervene in an unusual way.
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