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The 21 pages that link to Total war, each with the reason it gives.

• Attrition warfareNarrower topic: The pursuit of endurance can expand from armies to economies and civilian populations.

• Ulysses S. GrantRelated: Grant’s campaigns increasingly attacked Confederate armies, infrastructure, and supplies together.

• Military strategyCompared with: It contrasts with strategies that deliberately limit mobilization and aims.

• Joseph GoebbelsRelated: Goebbels’s 1943 Sportpalast speech called for intensified German mobilization after military defeats.

• Carl von ClausewitzRelated: The concept is often compared with Clausewitz’s account of war’s tendency toward extremes.

• Fabian strategyCompared with: Fabian methods can avoid matching an opponent’s full mobilization in direct, large-scale confrontation.

• War economyRelated: The idea captures why modern wars draw civilian production and labor into conflict.

• Anaconda PlanRelated: The plan’s pressure on commerce and infrastructure anticipated broader efforts to weaken Confederate war capacity.

• Asymmetric warfareCompared with: It concerns the scope of mobilization, not the disparity between opponents’ capabilities.

• Hybrid warfareCompared with: Total war concerns the scale of mobilization, not the blend of methods that defines hybrid warfare.

• William Tecumseh ShermanRelated: Sherman’s campaigns attacked railways, supplies, and infrastructure beyond opposing armies.

• Sherman's March to the SeaNarrower topic: The campaign is often treated as an example of war directed at an enemy’s material support.

• Land warfareRelated: Prolonged land campaigns can draw entire populations and economies into war.

• Irregular warfareCompared with: Total war describes the scale of mobilization, not the irregular character of a contest.

• Scorched earthNarrower topic: Scorched-earth measures can occur within total war but are not the same strategy.

• Antony BeevorRelated: His histories examine how modern wars engulfed civilians as well as armies.

• History of military logisticsRelated: Mass mobilization made production, transport, and civilian resources integral to military support.

• History of military technologyRelated: Industrial weapons and supply systems expanded war's reach into civilian economies and life.

• Perpetual warCompared with: Unlike perpetual war, total war describes the breadth of mobilization, not its duration.

• Ritual warfareCompared with: It contrasts with forms of combat that restrict aims or violence through ritual conventions.

• War effortNarrower topic: It describes the broadest form of society-wide mobilization associated with a war effort.