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Recent Examples of limited war
Israel and Hezbollah have engaged in a limited war since last October, but Israeli forces have significantly escalated the scope of their attacks since the beginning of September in an attempt to force Hezbollah to stop its attacks on northern Israel.
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Mike Brest, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 30 Sep. 2024
In this scenario, which may already be coming to fruition, the meager hope is that the conflict transforms into simply a more limited war.
—Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 5 Apr. 2024
Western policymakers in Washington also believe that Iran is relatively satisfied with the more limited war’s outcome so far: The Hamas attacks seriously undermined diplomacy meant to normalize relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
—Matt Bradley, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2023
But the fight to capture it risks putting Israel on a collision course with the Biden administration, which has called on Israel to minimize civilian casualties and ease humanitarian deprivation in Gaza, and to hew to a more limited war aim of expelling Hamas from power.
—Gordon Lubold, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2023
Many scholars panned the book, believing its 34-year-old author had overestimated the nation’s ability to keep limited war limited.
—David E. Sanger, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
The worry that the Israel-Hamas war would widen now seems less probable, and a more limited war would save the U.S. government from having to make a stark choice between helping Ukraine and intervening in a hot war in the Middle East.
—Liana Fix, Foreign Affairs, 28 Nov. 2023
The lack of escalation in Ukraine serves as a reminder that in limited wars, patience is a virtue.
—Austin Carson, Foreign Affairs, 14 Sep. 2023
Western leaders and Ukraine have allowed what is still, in some important ways, a limited war to emerge organically and through trial and error.
—Austin Carson, Foreign Affairs, 14 Sep. 2023
Mike Brest, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 30 Sep. 2024
In this scenario, which may already be coming to fruition, the meager hope is that the conflict transforms into simply a more limited war.
—Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 5 Apr. 2024
Western policymakers in Washington also believe that Iran is relatively satisfied with the more limited war’s outcome so far: The Hamas attacks seriously undermined diplomacy meant to normalize relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
—Matt Bradley, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2023
But the fight to capture it risks putting Israel on a collision course with the Biden administration, which has called on Israel to minimize civilian casualties and ease humanitarian deprivation in Gaza, and to hew to a more limited war aim of expelling Hamas from power.
—Gordon Lubold, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2023
Many scholars panned the book, believing its 34-year-old author had overestimated the nation’s ability to keep limited war limited.
—David E. Sanger, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
The worry that the Israel-Hamas war would widen now seems less probable, and a more limited war would save the U.S. government from having to make a stark choice between helping Ukraine and intervening in a hot war in the Middle East.
—Liana Fix, Foreign Affairs, 28 Nov. 2023
The lack of escalation in Ukraine serves as a reminder that in limited wars, patience is a virtue.
—Austin Carson, Foreign Affairs, 14 Sep. 2023
Western leaders and Ukraine have allowed what is still, in some important ways, a limited war to emerge organically and through trial and error.
—Austin Carson, Foreign Affairs, 14 Sep. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for limited war
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Second, a worry is that if countries try to keep their AI close to the vest, this will in turn start a new kind of cold war.Lance Eliot, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
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It’s generally agreed by the Housewives consuming public that this current iteration of Real Housewives of New Jersey — with Team Teresa and Team Melissa in a cold war and everyone playing their stories out in the press rather than in dramatic dinner scenes — is not sustainable.Bethy Squires, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2024
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Phew, no world war, and lucky McGee got to wear a comfy hoodie in the office for the crisis.Sara Netzley, EW.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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Because, choosing between some promises and the possibility of starting a third world war—the choice is still quite obvious.Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 2 Nov. 2024
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The wife of Charles II, whose ascension to the throne in 1660 marked the restoration of the British monarchy after the upheaval of civil war, Catherine is remembered, when she is remembered at all, for enduring her husband’s infidelity and the elevation of his many mistresses.Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2024
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The Saudis, who hosted and facilitated the talks that ended the 15-year Lebanese civil war in 1990, have also been hands-off, foregoing a role in Lebanon to focus on their country’s unprecedented economic and social transformation.Firas Maksad, TIME, 26 Nov. 2024
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The Justice Department said Aman wanted to join ISIS to engage in a holy war, or jihad, in Syria.Krystal Nurse, USA TODAY, 7 Nov. 2024
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The Declaration in Script and Print: A Visual History of America’s Founding Document by John Bidwell Rozina Ali God’s Directive After the September 11 attacks, evangelical American missionaries followed military tanks into Afghanistan and Iraq to convert Muslims as part of a holy war.The New York Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, 1 Nov. 2024
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