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:

    “He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.”
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)

    “The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting—the war and the revolution—and the character of the accused—revolutionary leaders of millions who were conducting their party to the sovereign power—you can say without exaggeration that July 1917 was the month of the most gigantic slander in world history.”
    —Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)