limited war

Example Sentences

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Since then, the United States returned to fight Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein; in Afghanistan, clear, limited war aims were never stated.

From Washington Post • Feb. 23, 2023

In 1999, the two countries fought a limited war in Kargil.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 12, 2022

In the end, Schelling—the master theorist of deterrence strategy and limited war—could not come up with a single plausible answer when faced with a real limited war.

From Slate • Jul. 7, 2021

After becoming interested in theories of deterrence and limited war, he decided that nuclear strategy lent itself to his evolving ideas about bargaining and game theory.

From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2016

To paraphrase the terminology of generative grammars, it was a limited war language, with not too many possible war sentences.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai