Total war is a military conflict of unlimited scope.

Total war
Total War
Total war
The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It
Japan Prepares for Total War:The Search for Economic Security, 1919–1941
Japan Prepares for Total War: The Search for Economic Security, 1919–1941
Glimmer of a New Leviathan:Total War in the Realism of Niebuhr, Morgenthau, and Waltz
David Bell, The First Total War, Napoleon’s Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It
The Shadows of Total War: The War’s Returns: Disabled Veterans in Britain and Germany, 1914-1939
Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire: Total War and Everyday Life in World War I
Omnipotent Government. The Rise of the Total State and Total War by LUDWIG VON MISES
Germany and the use of military force: ‘total war’, the ‘culture of restraint’ and the quest for normality
David A. Bell. The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 2007. Pp. x,...