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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