war of attrition
war of nerves
C2
- The war has claimed thousands of lives.
- The prime minister is to meet his European counterparts to discuss the war against drugs.
- America declared war on Japan in 1941.
- There is likely to be civil war if the region tries to secede from the south.
- The number of casualties was appallingly high in both wars.
- antebellum
- anti-militarism
- asymmetric warfare
- battle-scarred
- bellicose
- conflagration
- germ warfare
- gung-ho
- holy war
- jungle warfare
- phoney war
- SDI
- sinew
- sinews of war idiom
- smokescreen
- Star Wars
- the Great War
- the Second World War
- World War I
- World War II
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