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Military history

war that mobilizes a society's full resources and erases the line between combatants and civilians, an ideal type whose use historians debate.

In military history, total war refers to war that mobilizes a society's full resources and erases the line between combatants and civilians, an ideal type whose use historians debate. This meaning comes from Chickering (1999) in Anticipating Total War.[1]

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References

Chickering, R. (1999). Total War: The Use and Abuse of a Concept. In Anticipating Total War (pp. 13-28). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139052511.002

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