limited war
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One possible explanation is that Tehran believes that, despite its risks, a limited war serves its interests better.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
The war against Iran has been a limited war, and its outcome is likely to be inconclusive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
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
Harvard chemist George Kistiakowsky, a Manhattan Project veteran and member-at-large of the President’s Science Advisory Committee, had been an early champion of limited war.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2015
Had he done so he must have seen how much stronger an example of the strength of limited war was the case of Canada than the case of Saxony.
From Some Principles of Maritime Strategy by Julian S. (Julian Stafford) Corbett
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