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total warMilitary 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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Ed Colley raised about $25,000 for his campaign, and Heidt's total war chest was about $5,800. Pressures of global depression, heightened inter-imperial competition and total war mixed not only with techniques of mass social mobilization, faith in social engineering, and social corporatism, but also, fatally, with essentialist, hierarchical understandings of race, nation, gender and class. Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire: Total War and Everyday Life in World War I. |
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