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The phrase "a total war" is perfectly correct and usable in written English
It usually refers to a conflict in which all available resources and military power is used, leaving little distinction between military and civilian targets. For example: "The First World War was a total war, with millions of people killed in the conflict."
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The Second World War was a total war.
But the good war was also a total war.
"It was a total war to fill the venues," says Yann Pissenem of last year's difficulties.
But if the Civil War was not, strictly, a "total war," what war would be?
Obafemi Awolowo was justified in every tactic he advocated in what was a total war.
Many Islamist extremists consider it to be the first front of a total war against Islam.
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Having only recently emerged from an epoch of total war, the U.S. responded by going on to a total-war footing.
Strategic bombing is a facet of total war, the enlistment of a society's entire resources to aid in a conflict.
But secret reports concluded that the Soviet Union was likely to try such an attack only as a prelude to total war.
A game like Total War, which simulates historical battles on a dizzying scale, is only possible with a high-end processor.
"This is a declaration of total war.
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