Home › Entities › type_of_war › total war

total war

unrestricted warfare in which belligerents engage with all available resources and/or civilians and civil infrastructure are considered legitimate targets
Thing type_of_war Q154605
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

Summary

total war is a type of war[1]. It draws 6,904 Wikipedia views per month (type of war category, ranking #3 of 22).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: war[3], warfare[4]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[5]
  • Different from: absolute war[6]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[7]

Body

Influence

Things named for total war include Total War[8], a video game series[9], founded in 2000[10].

Why It Matters

total war has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] It is known by 44 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

Entities named for it include Total War[8], a video game series[9], founded in 2000[10].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [9] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). total war. Retrieved October 11, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/total-war-q154605-2
MLA “total war.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 11 Oct. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/total-war-q154605-2.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_total-war-q154605-2_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{total war}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/total-war-q154605-2}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-11}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): total war — https://4ort.xyz/entity/total-war-q154605-2 (retrieved 2026-10-11)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/total-war-q154605-2 · Last refreshed:

Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → type of war
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Opposite of → Q3119109
    Instance of → —
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007559158805171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
Live feed via Wikidata EventStreams. New edits appear within minutes of being made on Wikidata.