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war that is "unrestricted in terms of the weapons used, the territory or combatants involved, or the objectives pursued, especially one in which the laws of war are disregarded."

Under a total war approach to armed conflict, "all aspects of the enemy--its people, its infrastructure, its economy--are legitimate [military] targets."

In the mid-19th century, scholars identified what later became known

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