War
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War is an armed conflict between the armed forces of states, or between governmental forces and armed groups that are organized under a certain command structure and have the capacity to sustain milit
United States Army soldiers engaged in a firefight with Taliban insurgents during the War in Afghanistan, 2009
The remains of dead Crow Indians killed and scalped by Sioux c. 1874
Les Grandes Misères de la guerre depict the destruction unleashed on civilians during the Thirty Years' War.
Ruins of Warsaw's Napoleon Square in the aftermath of World War II
Total war
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Total war is a type of warfare where a society's entire economy, population, and infrastructure are considered part of the war effort. It mobilizes the totality of national resources to sustain the wa
War
…of political, economic, or territorial objectives. Warfare refers to the common activities and characteristics of types of war, or of wars in general. Total war is warfare that is not restricted to purely legitimate military targets, and can result in massive civilian or other non-combatant suffering and…
The drownings at Savenay during the War in the Vendée, 1793
Napoleon's retreat from Russia in 1812. Napoleon's Grande Armée had lost about half a million men.
Damage and destruction of civilian buildings in Belgium, 1914