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:
“Swann was one of those men who, having long lived in the illusions of love, saw the well-being that they gave to many women heighten their happiness without evoking in these women any gratitude, any tenderness toward them; but in their child these men believe they feel an affection which, embodied in their very name, will make them outlast their death. When there was to no longer be a Charles Swann, there would still be a Mademoiselle Swann ... who would continue to love her departed father.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
“To this war of every man against every man, this also is consequent; that nothing can be Unjust. The notions of Right and Wrong, Justice and Injustice have there no place. Where there is no common Power, there is no Law; where no Law, no Injustice. Force, and Fraud, are in war the two Cardinal virtues.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)