warfare : Idioms & Phrases

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bacteriological warfare

  • noun the use of harmful bacteria as a weapon
    bacteriological warfare.
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biological warfare

  • noun the use of bacteria or viruses or toxins to destroy men and animals or food
    biologic attack; BW; biological attack; bioattack.
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biological warfare defence

  • noun defense against biological warfare
    BW defense; biological warfare defence; BW defence.
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biological warfare defense

  • noun defense against biological warfare
    BW defense; biological warfare defence; BW defence.
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chemical warfare

  • noun warfare using chemical agents to kill or injure or incapacitate the enemy
    chemical operations.
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class warfare

  • noun conflict between social or economic classes (especially between the capitalist and proletariat classes)
    class struggle; class war.
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eco-warfare

  • noun violence carried out to further the political or social objectives of the environmentalists
    ecoterrorism; eco-warfare; ecological terrorism.
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ecological warfare

  • noun violence carried out to further the political or social objectives of the environmentalists
    ecoterrorism; eco-warfare; ecological terrorism.
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electronic warfare

  • noun military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum
    EW.
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electronic warfare-support measures

  • noun electronic warfare undertaken under direct control of an operational commander to locate sources of radiated electromagnetic energy for the purpose of immediate threat recognition
    ESM.
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germ warfare

  • noun the use of harmful bacteria as a weapon
    bacteriological warfare.
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information warfare

  • noun the use of information or information technology during a time of crisis or conflict to achieve or promote specific objectives over a specific adversary or adversaries
    IW.
    • not everyone agrees that information warfare is limited to the realm of traditional warfare
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  • noun the principal agency of the United States Navy for research and development for air warfare and missile weapon systems
    NAWCWPNS.
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  • noun the agency that provides units to conduct unconventional and counter-guerilla warfare
    NSW.
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  • noun the agency that provides scientific and engineering and technical support for all aspects of surface warfare
    NSWC.
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  • noun the agency that provides scientific and engineering and technical support for submarine and undersea warfare systems
    NUWC.
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psychological warfare

  • noun the use of psychological tactics to destroy the opponents' morale
    war of nerves.
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trench warfare

  • noun a struggle (usually prolonged) between competing entities in which neither side is able to win
    • the hope that his superior campaigning skills would make a difference evaporated in the realization that electioneering had become a form of trench warfare
  • noun a type of armed combat in which the opposing troops fight from trenches that face each other
    • instead of the war ending quickly, it became bogged down in trench warfare
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