8/24/2023 0 Comments The great war total war![]() ![]() Thus, such conflicts take place both on fighting and home fronts, and the distinction between the two becomes increasingly blurred. 1 Such conflicts are characteristic of the age of industrial capitalism, imperialism and mass politics, and are typified by the mobilization of society’s (in practice an empire’s) full resources - economic, diplomatic, scientific, technological, and above all population - for the ‘total’ war effort. The two world wars of the first half of the twentieth century gave rise to a new classification of war: ‘total war’, an expression supposedly first coined in the last year of the First World War by a Frenchman, Léon Daudet, in his ‘summons to national mobilization’, La Guerre Totale.
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