limited war

• Conflit armé dans lequel les belligérants restreignent l'usage de la force, les objectifs ou le territoire afin d'éviter une escalade vers une guerre totale ou mondiale.

A military conflict in which the belligerents restrict their use of weapons, territory, or objectives, often to avoid escalation into a full-scale or global war.

1. Constrained military conflictC1formal

   A war in which the belligerents restrict their use of weapons, targets, or geographic scope, often to avoid escalation into a total war.

   guerre limitée

   • The Korean War is often cited as an example of a limited war.
   • Strategists debated the effectiveness of limited war during the Cold War.
   • The treaty aimed to keep the conflict as a limited war.