limited war

“We’re in a limited war, which is certainly better than total war, but we’re one or two miscalculations away from spiraling completely out of control,” he said.

Those ties widened into a security relationship after 1999, when India fought a limited war with Pakistan over Kashmir and Israel helped New Delhi with arms and ammunition.

The failure to prevent U.S. entry into a future Taiwan conflict would result in a “limited war of short duration” designed to delay or defeat U.S. and allied military intervention.

But his rhetoric has shifted from talk of a limited war — in his telling, one of self-defense — to drawing direct parallels to the colossal fight against Nazism.

“Have we done the correct estimations of what the requirements are? They’ve been very high in this arguably small, limited war,” Milley said.