| He described the futile competition born of total war and the development of trench-warfare systems. |
| Newspaper proprietors accepted the new controls on the altar of total war and co-operated in disseminating government propaganda. |
| Perhaps no one who maintains the Civil War was a total war means it so literally. |
| World War One was a total war, and in such conflicts, restraints are cast aside. |
| The Vietnam War was not a total war because America feared Chinese intervention, as happened in Korea. |
| If the two don't speak to each other, the world edges closer to the precipice of total war. |
