The modern practice of total war, Bell argues, was driven by the Enlightenment dream of total peace.
Creative Assembly, the creators of the Total War franchise, created a fairly orthodox, simple one-screen jump-and-shooter.
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Rather than a slow, moldering evil, with a horrific climax, Snyder sees twelve years of total war.
Armies like to be able to feed and supply themselves in the event of a total war.
Mr Hollande said France's aim was not a "total war", but to increase the pressure on the government.
With a half century of total war ending and something like peace breaking out politics loses its life-and-death drama.
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Nuclear weapons, he thinks, make total war less likely, limited conflict more so.
Launched in a post-conscript age, it can be seen as a return to the historical condition that preceded total war.
Instead, Tea Partiers signal that society is beginning to perceive, and trust, that the epoch of total war has ended.
Having only recently emerged from an epoch of total war, the U.S. responded by going on to a total-war footing.
In fact, according to government estimates, contractors account for a startling 40% of the total war effort on the American side.
But for tomatoes to survive long enough to take advantage of that huge potential market, Florida growers have to wage what amounts to total war against the elements.
Could Hirohito have averted the reckless calamity of total war?
Friday night it gave foreign oil interests in Nigeria, especially Shell, which the main operator in Niger Delta, till midnight Friday to leave the area or face what one commander called total war.
But his departure after less than one year in the job has more of a feel of World War I or II about it, when generals were routinely "broken" or "came unstuck" in the febrile atmosphere of total war.
It was as if, to take the terrible dialectic one step further, the dream of total peace that had produced the fact of total war threw the bleeding and bewildered masses back on the only fixed point left: an absolutist religiosity, made more fanatic by persecution.
In total the Commonwealth War Graves Commission is responsible for commemorating almost 1.7 million service personnel who died in the two world wars.
The total cost of the war was about 30 BUSD (the entire Federal Budget in 1912 was just under 1 BUSD).
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Above all, they had hoped for a verdict on the war's last 60 hours, when a desperate last push deep into south Lebanon gained nothing but the deaths of 33 soldiers, a quarter of the war's total Israeli losses (some 1, 400 Lebanese are reckoned to have died).
During the war, an estimated total of 125, 000 people were deported from Ethiopia and Eritrea.
Intraregional trade in Asia climbed from a fifth of the region's total trade after the second world war to a third in the 1980s to over half today.
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Fatalities among U.S. military personnel have declined from a hundred and twenty-six in May, 2007, to just thirteen this past July, the lowest total of any month since the war began, in March, 2003.
Germany's jobless total remains stubbornly close to the post war record of five million reached in March.
During 1992, the worst year of the war in Bosnia, the total number of asylum-seekers in Britain from former Yugoslavia stood at 5, 635.
His death brings the total number of UK soldiers killed in the war to 23, and is possibly the fifth as a result of what the military calls "blue on blue" incidents.
The number of soldiers who died between 1861 and 1865, an estimated 620, 000, is approximately equal to the total American fatalities in the Revolution, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, and the Korean War combined.
Sixteen U.S. troops have been killed in Iraq in November, bringing the total number of U.S. service member deaths in the Iraq war to 4, 206.
In the run-up to the Iraq war, it was reported that, in March 2003, Total SA negotiated a major contract with Saddam Hussein's regime to develop Iraq's southern oil fields.
After all, this outcome was made virtually inevitable by the Europeans' unwillingness over the past week to implement or enforce what the United States hoped would be the three basic pillars of allied action -- the lifting of the arms embargo against Bosnian Muslims, air strikes and a total shut-down of the Danube and other essential supply lines for the Serbian war machine and economy.
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It is reckoned that a total of 520, 000 Tamil refugees have left the country since the start of the war, 60, 000 of them to India and most of the rest to Europe, North America or Australia.
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