Long War

Long War can refer to:

  • Long War (Ottoman wars), a war between the Habsburgs and the Ottoman Empire from 1593 to 1606
  • Long War (20th century), a concept describing several wars from 1914 to 1990 as one long war
  • Long War (21st century), a name proposed in 2006 by U.S. military leaders for the Global War on Terrorism
  • Long War (Provisional IRA strategy), a strategy followed by the Provisional IRA which aimed to achieve victory through attrition warfare

See also:

  • List of wars extended by diplomatic irregularity for a list of wars made very long by diplomatic technicalities.
  • Perpetual war, a military and political concept.

Famous quotes containing the words long and/or war:

    “So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say. But to sacrifice a hair of the head of your vision, a shade of its colour, in deference to some Headmaster with a silver pot in his hand or to some professor with a measuring-rod up his sleeve, is the most abject treachery, and the sacrifice or wealth and chastity, which used to be said to be the greatest of human disasters, a mere flea-bite in comparison.”
    —Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

    “A sergeant of the lawe, war and wys,
    That often hadde been at the Parvys,
    Ther was also, ful riche of excellence.”
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)