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- German · calque oftotaler Krieg
- English todaytotal war
Calque of German totaler Krieg, coined by Erich Ludendorff.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
total war
Today it means: Warfare where all of a country's available resources, military as well as civilian, are employed. Full definition →
German totaler Krieg