A limited war is a conflict in which the belligerents participating in the war do not expend all of each of the participants' available resources at their disposal, whether human, industrial, agricultural, military, natural, technological, or otherwise in a specific conflict. This may be to preserve those resources for other purposes, or because it might be more difficult for specific participants to be able to utilize all of an areas resources rather than part of them. Limited war is an opposite of the concept of total war. An example of the limited war is the Egypt-Israeli War of Attrition. It is the military strategy used by President of the United States Harry S. Truman during the Cold War. This strategy was opposed by General Douglas MacArthur, and the disagreement escalated during the Korean War at the cost of his command and career, as his "respect authority" would exasperate Truman and frustrate his limited war policy to contain the Communist North Koreans above the 38th Parallel.
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“There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however naïve that may have been, it was a good deal less naïve than some of the limited objectives he has now. Today novels are considered to be entirely concerned with the social or economic or psychological forces that they will by necessity exhibit, or with those details of daily life that are for the good novelist only means to some deeper end.”
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“You went to meet the shell’s embrace of fire
On Vimy Ridge; and when you fell that day
The war seemed over more for you than me,
But now for me than you the other way.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)