War economy
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A war economy or wartime economy is the set of preparations undertaken by a modern state to mobilize its economy for war production. Philippe Le Billon describes a war economy as a "system of producin
An American poster from World War I explaining sugar rations. Sugar was being conserved to provide for allied countries in Europe and support the war effort.
Poster issued during World War I by the educational division of the U.S. Food Administration
Mass production of Consolidated B-32 Dominator airplanes at Consolidated Aircraft Plant No. 4, near Fort Worth, Texas, during World War II
Gari Melchers War Highsmith
Total war
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Total war is a type of warfare that 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 t
Ruins of Warsaw's Napoleon Square in the aftermath of World War II
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