The phrase "a small conflict" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a minor disagreement or dispute between individuals or groups.
Example: "The team experienced a small conflict over the project's direction, but they quickly resolved it through discussion."
Alternatives: "a minor dispute" or "a slight disagreement".
He was facing a Pentagon flush with victory from a more traditional war in the Persian Gulf, but one unwilling to enter a small conflict whose political objective was to bring the parties to the negotiating table.
That is the reality of South Ossetia, where a small conflict is beginning to spread exponentially... .. de Waal calls the Georgian attack on South Ossetia "a blatant violation of international humanitarian law".
Trump declined to comment on a recent report in the Wall Street Journal about a debate within his White House over a so-called "bloody nose" strategy, in which the U.S. might start a small conflict with North Korea in a dangerous bid to rein in Pyongyang's nuclear program, but stop short of launching a larger war.
Numerous studies have shown that humans are nearly Bayes-optimal in combining simple perceptual cues, even in the presence of a small conflict between the cues [16], [17], [18], [46], [47], [48], [49], [50], [51], [52], sensorimotor integration [53], [54], and other forms of cue combination [55], [56], [57], [58], [59], [60].
A small, conflicted world.
That may seem minor to London, but it was over those same documents that a major war between India and China was fought in 1962, as well as a smaller conflict in 1987.
In the Simon task (Bialystok et al. 2004), for example, bilinguals have shorter reaction times (RTs) for both congruent and incongruent trials (Bialystok et al. 2004; Bialystok et al. 2005a, b; Bialystok 2006), and in the Attentional Network task (ANT) (Fan et al. 2002), bilinguals usually show faster RTs, a smaller conflict effect and smaller switch costs (Costa et al. 2008).
Toon reported in Science in 2007 that even a "small-scale" conflict involving 100 weapons could kill 21 million people and release enough smoke to cause "substantial global-scale climate anomalies" lasting years.
Partial measures may seem attractive, but they risk turning a small local conflict into a far messier regional war.
By Jeffrey Frank July 6, 2016 It would be helpful to hear the Presidential candidates' thoughts — and Henry Kissinger's — on engaging in a "small" nuclear conflict.
Seventy-one years after a relatively small nuclear device flattened Hiroshima, it would be helpful to hear the Presidential candidates address the concept of a small nuclear conflict and what they reckon would be an acceptable cost, for America or its enemies, in fighting in one.
