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Definition of Limited war
1. Noun. A war whose objective is less than the unconditional defeat of the enemy.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Limited War
Literary usage of Limited war
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. International Law Chiefly as Interpreted and Applied by the United States by Charles Cheney Hyde (1922)
"General in Contrast to limited war. At the present time wars as between opposing
States are commonly general, in the sense that each belligerent regards the ..."
2. Diplomat's Dictionary by Charles W. Freeman, Jr. (1995)
"Henry A. Kissinger, 1960 War, limited: War for objectives declared by those ...
limited war, in a self-defeating variant, is also occasionally taken to mean ..."
3. Cases on International Law: Selected from Decisions of English and American by James Brown Scott, Freeman Snow (1902)
"no public general war, but limited war, in its nature similar to a prolonged
series of reprisals.1 1 The Court of Claims reconsidered this question in ..."
4. Chinese Views of Future Warfare by Michael Pillsbury (1997)
"hen Zkou not run counter to the limited-war strategy, but it should be ...
Therefore, it is only an understanding of the allied policy on limited-war terms ..."
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