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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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For more than a decade, the West has faced off against the East again in what was widely called a new cold war.—
Peter Baker,
New York Times,
19 Feb. 2025
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His efforts at alliance building reflected not the beginning of a multipolar era but an ideological contest between democracy and autocracy in a new cold war with China.—
Michael Brenes,
Foreign Affairs,
28 Jan. 2025
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Modern international law emerged from the wreckage of world wars.—
Gyunduz Mamedov,
TIME,
24 Feb. 2025
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Through the two world wars and into the 1950s, some 22,000 immigrants saw their U.S. citizenship revoked.—
Lauren Villagran,
USA TODAY,
27 Jan. 2025
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Columbia has had a new president annually, and Harvard, like a small, suffering nation embroiled in civil war, has had more presidents than commencement parades.—
Nathan Heller,
The New Yorker,
3 Mar. 2025
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Father Michelle Naaman, who was kidnapped during the civil war, complained that foreign fighters were manning some checkpoints, confusing the question of who represents the government and who are militia members.—
Taylor Luck,
The Christian Science Monitor,
25 Feb. 2025
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While Tedesco calls for a holy war in response to the attack, Benitez takes a different approach, declaring that violence should not be met with more violence.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
27 Feb. 2025
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But as Paul starts to meet the prophetic expectations of his most fervent followers, there are signs of a holy war that could have terrible consequences.—
Scott Tobias,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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“Limited war.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/limited%20war. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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