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shadow war

noun

shadow war

noun

Etymology From shadow + war.

1

A form of armed conflict, conducted secretly in the nexus between war and peace, where various actors utilise different means to achieve their goals.

  • The Iran-Israel conflict was once limited largely to a shadow war.2024 October 28, Scott Peterson, “Israeli strikes inside Iran cross a threshold. How will Iran respond?”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
Related terms
cold war, hot war

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