In economic terms, this has been a case of total war.

It was a total war in every sense of the word.

But this one seemed complete, it had been a total war.

"Total war means you use all the elements of national power," he told me recently.

They were never really integrated into the total war effort.

Total war is the most humane in the long run.

This was the first major Total war, which required the involvement and support of the general population.

This policy is often considered a component strategy of total war.

In a total war we have to keep people under constant surveillance.

For Thomas, every conflict, no matter how minor, took on the character of total war.

Outside of medieval history, total war and not very nice governments, when has that happened or turned out well?

But in this total war, no one could emerge with totally clean hands.

It became an important part of the total war waged against Germany.

Total war did not allow such courtesies to last for long.

The new surveillance state that wants to know everything about its inhabitants is a result of total war.

But how is this done in this day of total war?

I think we'd better reach some accommodation short of total war."

In short the limited war always has the potential to become a total war.

But the country is not on a total war footing, and life in the capital has mostly been normal.

Nothing short of the organisation for 'total war' on a scale previously unknown in history would do.

Twice before in this century, such conflicts plunged the world into total war.

To play the game correctly requires that it be treated as total war.

We somehow got to the position where war had to be total war.

They're locked into a permanent state of population explosion followed by total war.

A book that was way ahead of its time, predicting flying machines and total war.