- Total war
Total war (Topical Term)
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- Broader heading: Military policy
- Broader heading: Strategy
- Broader heading: War
Work cat.: 2004046563: A world at total war, 2004: CIP galley (total war assumes the commitment of massive armed forces to battle, the thoroughgoing mobilization of industrial economies in the war effort; radicalization of warfare; abandonment of the last restraints on combat which were hitherto imposed by law, moral codes, or simple civility; systematic demonization of the enemy; systemic erasure of the basic distinctions between soldiers and civilians; civilians become legitimate targets of military violence)
Encyclopedia Britannica online, March 12, 2004 (total war: military conflict in which the contenders are willing to make any sacrifice in lives and other resources to obtain a complete victory, as distinguished from limited war; the modern concept of total war can be traced to the writings of the 19th-century Prussian military strategist Carl von Clausewitz, who stressed the importance of crushing the adversary's forces in battle)
International military and defense encyclopedia, 1993 (total war represents a specifically German theory of war and a phenomenology of war that had its strongest influence on history in the first half of the twentieth century and finally proved a failure with the end of World War II; the term is also used in a general way to denote the development of war phenomena in the twentieth century, particularly regarding both world wars and the concept of nuclear-strategic war; characterized by a total mobilization of manpower including the civilian population, economic warfare, complete exploitation of economic resources, deprivation of the opponent's population so that they are willing to accept capitulation; not a normal state of conflict but a special practice; development of the practice of total war began with the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars; progressed from von Clausewitz's theory of absolute war)
Encyc. of twentieth century warfare, 1989 (total war)
Here are entered works on war in which all available military and civilian resources, including manpower, technology, and wealth, are committed to the achievement of a political end by military means.
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