total war

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Calque of German totaler Krieg, coined by Erich Ludendorff.

43 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: الحَرْب الشَّامِلَة (al-ḥarb aš-šāmila) — warfare where all of a country's resources are employed
• Armenian: տոտալ պատերազմ — warfare where all of a country's resources are employed
• Belarusian: татальная вайна (tatalʹnaja vajna) — warfare where all of a country's resources are employed
• Bulgarian: тотална война (totalna vojna) — warfare where all of a country's resources are employed
• Catalan: guerra total — warfare where all of a country's resources are employed
• Chinese Mandarin: 總體戰 /总体战 (zǒngtǐzhàn) — warfare where all of a country's resources are employed
• Czech: totální válka — warfare where all of a country's resources are employed
• Danish: total krig — warfare where all of a country's resources are employed
• Dutch: totale oorlog — warfare where all of a country's resources are employed
• Esperanto: totala milito — warfare where all of a country's resources are employed
• Finnish: totaalinen sota — warfare where all of a country's resources are employed
• Finnish: totaalinen sodankäynti — warfare where all of a country's resources are employed
• French: guerre totale — warfare where all of a country's resources are employed
• Galician: guerra total — warfare where all of a country's resources are employed
• Georgian: მთელი ომი (mteli omi) — warfare where all of a country's resources are employed
• German: totaler Krieg — warfare where all of a country's resources are employed
• Greek: ολοκληρωτικός πόλεμος (oloklirotikós pólemos) — warfare where all of a country's resources are employed
• Hebrew: מלחמה כוללת (milkhome kulelet) — warfare where all of a country's resources are employed
• Hungarian: totális háború — warfare where all of a country's resources are employed
• Indonesian: perang total — warfare where all of a country's resources are employed
• Italian: guerra totale — warfare where all of a country's resources are employed
• Japanese: 国家総力戦 (kokka-sō-rikisen) — warfare where all of a country's resources are employed
• Japanese: 総力戦 (sōryoku-sen) — warfare where all of a country's resources are employed
• Korean: 총력전 (chongnyeokjeon) — warfare where all of a country's resources are employed
• Macedonian: тотална војна (totalna vojna) — warfare where all of a country's resources are employed
• Norwegian Bokmål: total krig — warfare where all of a country's resources are employed
• Norwegian Nynorsk: total krig — warfare where all of a country's resources are employed
• Norwegian Nynorsk: total krigføring — warfare where all of a country's resources are employed
• Persian: جنگ تمامعیار (jang tamâm ayar) — warfare where all of a country's resources are employed
• Polish: wojna totalna — warfare where all of a country's resources are employed
• Portuguese: guerra total — warfare where all of a country's resources are employed
• Romanian: război total — warfare where all of a country's resources are employed
• Russian: тотальная война (totalʹnaja vojna) — warfare where all of a country's resources are employed
• Serbo-Croatian: тотални рат — warfare where all of a country's resources are employed
• Serbo-Croatian: totalni rat — warfare where all of a country's resources are employed
• Slovak: totálna vojna — warfare where all of a country's resources are employed
• Slovene: totalna vojna — warfare where all of a country's resources are employed
• Spanish: guerra total — warfare where all of a country's resources are employed
• Swedish: total krigföring — warfare where all of a country's resources are employed
• Thai: สงครามเบ็ดเสร็จ (sǒng-kraam-bèt-sèt) — warfare where all of a country's resources are employed
• Turkish: topyekûn savaş — warfare where all of a country's resources are employed
• Ukrainian: тотальна війна (totalʹna vijna) — warfare where all of a country's resources are employed
• Vietnamese: chiến tranh toàn diện — warfare where all of a country's resources are employed