total war

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Warfare where all of a country's available resources, military as well as civilian, are employed. countable,uncountable
    — In the course of its crisis the young French Republic discovered or invented total war: the total mobilization of a nation's resources through conscription, rationing and a rigidly controlled war economy, and virtual abolition, at home or abroad, of the distinction between soldiers and civilians.

词形变化

total wars plural

词源

Calque of German totaler Krieg, coined by Erich Ludendorff.
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