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It's my belief that by demonizing Saddam, by raising the stakes in this war to the point where we're talking about a great moral crusade, that Bush in fact planted the seeds of discontent in the country, because this was fundamentally a limited war with limited objectives and with limited gains.
Rick Atkinson

Meaning of "limited war" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF LIMITED WAR

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LIMITED WAR

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Limited war is a noun.
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WHAT DOES LIMITED WAR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Limited war

A limited war is a conflict in which the belligerents participating in the war do not expend all of each of the participants' available resources at their disposal, whether human, industrial, agricultural, military, natural, technological, or otherwise in a specific conflict. This may be to preserve those resources for other purposes, or because it might be more difficult for specific participants to be able to utilize all of an areas resources rather than part of them. Limited war is an opposite of the concept of total war.

Definition of limited war in the English dictionary

The definition of limited war in the dictionary is a war in which the belligerents do not seek the total destruction of the enemy, esp one in which nuclear weapons are deliberately not used.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LIMITED WAR

limitative
limited
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limited company
limited edition
limited liability
limited liability company
limited monarchy
limited partner
limited partnership
limited-stop bus
limitedly
limitedness
limiter
limites
limiting
limitingly
limitless
limitlessly
limitlessness

WORDS THAT END LIKE LIMITED WAR

bidding war
civil war
cod war
cold war
council of war
declaration of war
dirty war
flame war
ground war
guerrilla war
holy war
man o´ war
opium war
prisoner of war
sloop of war
state of war
theatre of war
to have had a good war
trade war
turf war

Synonyms and antonyms of limited war in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «limited war» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LIMITED WAR

Find out the translation of limited war to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of limited war from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «limited war» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

有限战争
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

guerra limitada
570 millions of speakers

English

limited war
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सीमित युद्ध
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

حرب محدودة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ограниченная война
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

guerra limitada
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সীমিত যুদ্ধ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

guerre limitée
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Perang terhad
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

begrenzten Krieg
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

限定戦争
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

제한 전쟁
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Perang sing winates
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chiến tranh hạn chế
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வரையறுக்கப்பட்ட யுத்தம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मर्यादित युद्ध
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Sınırlı savaş
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

guerra limitata
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ograniczona wojna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

обмежена війна
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

război limitat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

περιορισμένος πόλεμος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

beperkte oorlog
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

begränsad krig
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

begrenset krig
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of limited war

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LIMITED WAR»

The term «limited war» is normally little used and occupies the 119.803 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LIMITED WAR» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about limited war

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QUOTES WITH «LIMITED WAR»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word limited war.
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Rick Atkinson
It's my belief that by demonizing Saddam, by raising the stakes in this war to the point where we're talking about a great moral crusade, that Bush in fact planted the seeds of discontent in the country, because this was fundamentally a limited war with limited objectives and with limited gains.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LIMITED WAR»

Discover the use of limited war in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to limited war and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Firepower in Limited War
Examines how the United States can employ its massive, high-tech firepower in an effective manner when future conflicts are likely to be limited and of low intensity.
Robert H. Scales, Jr., 1990
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The Cold War U.S. Army: building deterrence for limited war
Ingo Trauschweizer chronicles the U.S. Army's struggles with its identity, structure, and mission in the face of those challenges, showing how it evolved, redefined its mission more than once, and ultimately transformed itself.
Ingo Trauschweizer, 2008
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Defence and the Media in Time of Limited War
Peter R Young. quently to change policy directions, would suggest that they might have been better placed if they had done so. In the context of current pressures for a drawdown in the superpowers' forward deployed forces, that discipline is ...
Peter R Young, 2013
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The United States Military in Limited War: Case Studies in ...
Case Studies in Success and Failure, 1945-1999 Kevin Dougherty. projects for South Vietnam. Johnson made it clear that he expected a massive increase in pacification productivity in the upcoming year, and he expressed his mounting ...
Kevin Dougherty, 2012
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Nuclear War and Nuclear Peace
After the Korean war, a general discussion began in the United States concerning the nature of limited war, the factors limiting it, and means of guaranteeing that it would remain within its bounds. Theorists at first tended to view limitation of war ...
Y. Harkabi, 1966
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Contemporary Security and Strategy
This chapter begins with a look at what is meant by 'small' and 'limited' war and then discusses a variety of different types of small or limited wars, including non- state conflicts such as unconventional war, ethnic or communal conflicts, ...
Craig A. Snyder, 1999
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The Strategy of Conflict
Limited war requires limits; so do strategic maneuvers if they are to be stabilized short of war. But limits require agreement or at least some kind of mutual recognition and acquiescence. And agreement on limits is difficult to reach, not only ...
Thomas C. Schelling, 1980
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Contemporary Moral Problems: War, Terrorism, and Torture
Our reading is taken from The Conduct of Just and Limited War (1981). O'Brien divides just war theory into two parts. The first, jus ad bellum, states conditions that should be met for a state to have the right to go to war. The second, jus in bello, ...
James White, 2008
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The American Way of War: A History of United States Military ...
But it was not only a possible new strategy for unconventional war that had fnUen into the discard; so had much of the limited-war strategic thought of the 1950s. One of the problems that limited-war strategists had failed to face squarely was ...
Russell Frank Weigley, 1977
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Vietnam at War: The History: 1946-1975
One of the theories developed by the civilians was that of "limited war." They based this concept on two assumptions: first, the United States had to contain communism, which was expanding by means of local or indigenous wars; second, ...
Phillip B. Davidson, 1991

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LIMITED WAR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term limited war is used in the context of the following news items.
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Divining the Obama Legacy - Robert Dallek - POLITICO Magazine
... where more than 30,000 U.S. troops had been killed in a limited war, a stalled Fair Deal agenda, and accusations of Communist subversion ... «Politico, Jul 15»
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To Blind Its Enemies, the US Army Once Built a Giant Flashlight
During the Vietnam War, the U.S. Army's Limited War Laboratory—a.k.a. LWL—in Maryland cooked up a so-called “ambush light” for American ... «War is Boring, Jul 15»
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The Courage Of Kissinger's Contradictions
“Though the need for forces capable of fighting limited nuclear war remains,” he called for excluding them from limited war “except as a last ... «The Federalist, Jul 15»
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After a decade of fatal mistakes, Israel must learn: Limited war won't …
Terrorism can only be halted by destroying the ability to commit terror acts. Therefore disarming Gaza's terror groups must always be on the ... «Haaretz, Jul 15»
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Analysis: Will there be another Gaza war?
It was a limited war because the declared goals were limited. Israel didn't wish to topple Hamas because that would have meant once again ... «Jerusalem Post Israel News, Jul 15»
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Confines of Confrontational Statements and Conventional Deterrence
Pragmatically, beyond the strained relations, statements also advocate few confines of military threats, limited war and conventional deterrence ... «Voice of Journalists, Jul 15»
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The Superpower Conundrum
The conflict there was to be a “limited war. ... JDAM—should be thought of as the arrival of “limited war” in the world of weapons development. «The Nation., Jul 15»
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Toward a Rational US Strategy (Part 2)
In Schelling's war game (to test what he had written in The Strategy of Conflict on limited war and reprisal) that was played out with access to all ... «Consortium News, Jul 15»
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India-Pakistan: Limitations Of Confrontational Statements And …
Pragmatically, beyond the strained relations, statements also advocate few confines of military threats, limited war and conventional deterrence ... «Eurasia Review, Jun 15»
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Imagining World War III: Lethal Drone Swarms, F-35s and Total Chaos
... rules out nuclear escalation in a limited war. Readers are spared the months of frustrated cabinet meetings, angry congressional hearings, ... «The National Interest Online, Jun 15»

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