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warfare Definition

war·fare (wôrfer′)

noun

  1. the action of waging war; armed conflict
  2. conflict or struggle of any kind

warfare Synonyms

warfare

n.

armed conflict, military operations, hostilities, armed struggle, combat, counterinsurgency; see also battle 1, war.

warfare Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • wage: He will go on to wage unrestricted warfare against all who oppose him.
  • conduct: Potential adversaries, however, do not need high-technology systems to conduct effective information warfare.

Preposition: in

  • addition: Under Siege Each section of Middle Ages Weapons provides interesting facts and information about Medieval warfare in addition to the Under Siege.

Adjective modifier

  • asymmetric: Some have begun to map such processes as they swept through mass mediated populations of the age of asymmetric warfare.
  • internecine: Nor can I see an end to the internecine warfare that exists within and between British UFO groups.
  • anti-submarine: To know about anti-submarine warfare, crews had to know how submarines worked.
  • unrestricted: He will go on to wage unrestricted warfare against all who oppose him.
  • naval: In modern naval warfare, surface ships do not operate independently.
  • biological: Susan Lambert's film tells us above all about the science behind biological warfare.

Modifies a noun

  • agent: Currently there are about 100 per year, mainly trials of counter measures to chemical warfare agents.
  • tactic: Medieval Siege warfare tactics were therefore very much dependent on the construction of the castle.
  • capability: China, North Korea, Cuba, and Russia, among others, are also believed to be developing cyber warfare capabilities.
  • attack: In essence, information warfare attacks on the United States are deterred by the same policy that deters other types of attack.
  • experiment: They are used in chemical, biological and germ warfare experiments.

Noun used with modifier

  • guerrilla: He wrote a book on the guerrilla warfare, which had big impact on Latin America.
  • guerilla: Spain is a classic country of " guerilla warfare.
  • trench: In trench warfare the loss of a trench most likely meant the loss of the weapons in it.
  • germ: There's some big plan afoot involving some sort of germ warfare.
  • siege: Siege warfare, waged to win a castle or a walled town or city, was a frequent occurrence during the Middle Ages.
  • jungle: The Training Team Brunei run jungle warfare courses for all members of the British Army.
warfare Quotes

All the devastation, the butchery, the plundering, the conflagrations, and all the anguish which accompanied the recent disaster at Rome were in accordance with the general practice of warfare.

—St Augustine originally Aurelius Augustinus

Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest mayalso be the gentlest.

—Dobzhansky,Theodosius G

Insurrectionöby means of guerrilla bandsöis the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke.

—Mazzini, Giuseppe

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshedöthey produced Michelangelo, Leonardo daVinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.

—Welles, (George) Orson

All warfare is based on deception.

—SunTzu

It was a cruel city, but it was a lovely one, a savage city, yet it had such tenderness, a bitter, harsh, and violent catacomb of stone and steel and tunnelled rock, slashed savagely with light, and roaring, fighting a constant ceaseless warfare of men and machinery; and yet it was so sweetly and so delicately pulsed, as full of warmth, of passion, and of love, as it was full of hate.

—Wolfe,Thomas Clayton

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