warfare - the waging of armed conflict against an enemy; "thousands of people were killed in the war"de-escalation - (war) a reduction in intensity (of a crisis or a war) limited war - a war whose objective is less than the unconditional defeat of the enemy battle, engagement, conflict, fight - a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war; "Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga"; "he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement" civil war - a war between factions in the same country information warfare, IW - the use of information or information technology during a time of crisis or conflict to achieve or promote specific objectives over a specific adversary or adversaries; "not everyone agrees that information warfare is limited to the realm of traditional warfare" world war - a war in which the major nations of the world are involved Chino-Japanese War, Sino-Japanese War - a war between China and Japan (1894 and 1895) over the control of the Korean Peninsula; China was overwhelmingly defeated at Port Arthur Macedonian War - one the four wars between Macedonia and Rome in thye 3rd and 2nd centuries BC, which ended in the defeat of Macedonia and its annexation as a Roman province Arab-Israeli War, Yom Kippur War - Egypt and Syria attacked Israel in October 1973 (on Yom Kippur); Israel counterattacked and drove the Syrians back and crossed the Suez Canal into Egypt Balkan Wars - two wars (1912-1913) that were fought over the last of the European territories of the Ottoman Empire and that left the area around Constantinople (now Istanbul) as the only Ottoman territory in Europe Boer War - either of two wars: the first when the Boers fought England in order to regain the independence they had given up to obtain British help against the Zulus (1880-1881); the second when the Orange Free State and Transvaal declared war on Britain (1899-1902) Crimean War - a war in Crimea between Russia and a group of nations including England and France and Turkey and Sardinia; 1853-1856 Franco-Prussian War - a war between France and Prussia that ended the Second Empire in France and led to the founding of the German empire; 1870-1871 French and Indian War - a war in North America between France and Britain (both aided by indian tribes); 1755-1760 Hundred Years' War - the series of wars fought intermittently between France and England; 1337-1453 Iran-Iraq War, Gulf War - a dispute over control of the waterway between Iraq and Iran broke out into open fighting in 1980 and continued until 1988, when they accepted a UN cease-fire resolution Korean War - a war between North and South Korea; South Korea was aided by the United States and other members of the United Nations; 1950-1953 Mexican War - after disputes over Texas lands that were settled by Mexicans the United States declared war on Mexico in 1846 and by treaty in 1848 took Texas and California and Arizona and New Mexico and Nevada and Utah and part of Colorado and paid Mexico $15,000,000 Napoleonic Wars - a series of wars fought between France (led by Napoleon Bonaparte) and alliances involving England and Prussia and Russia and Austria at different times; 1799-1815 Peloponnesian War - a war in which Athens and its allies were defeated by the league centered on Sparta; 431-404 BC Gulf War, Persian Gulf War - a war fought between a coalition led by the United States and Iraq to free Kuwait from Iraqi invaders; 1990-1991 Punic War - one of the three wars between Carthage and Rome that resulted in the destruction of Carthage and its annexation by Rome; 264-241 BC, 218-201 BC, 149-146 BC |