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  Long War can refer to:
  • Long War (Ottoman wars)
    Long War (Ottoman wars)

    The Long War or Thirteen Years' War was one of the numerous wars between the Habsburg Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire that took place after the Battle of Moh?cs....
    , a war between the Habsburg
    Habsburg

    The House of Habsburg was an important royal house of Europe and is best known as supplying all of the formally elected Holy Roman Emperors between 1452 and 1740, as well as rulers of Spanish Empire and the Austrian Empire....
    s and the Ottoman Empire from 1593 to 1606
  • Long War (20th century)
    Long War (20th century)

    The Long War is a name proposed by Philip Bobbitt in The_Shield_of_Achilles:_War,_Peace,_and_the_Course_of_History, to describe the series of major conflicts fought from the start of the World War I in 1914 to the decline of the Soviet Union in 1990....
    , a concept describing several wars from 1914 to 1990 as one long war
  • Long War (21st century)
    Long War (21st century)

    The Long War is a term used by the George W. Bush administration referring to US actions against various governments and terrorist organisations, as a reaction to the September 11 attacks....
    , a name proposed in 2006 by U.S. military leaders for the Global War on Terrorism
    War on Terrorism

    The War on Terrorism or War on Terror are the common terms for the military, political, legal and ideological conflict against Islamic terrorism and Muslim militants, and specifically used in reference to operations by the United States, since the September 11 attacks....
  • 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
    List of wars extended by diplomatic irregularity

    There are several claims of wars extended by diplomatic irregularity, often by a small country named in a declaration of war being accidentally omitted from the concluding peace treaty of a wider conflict....
     for a list of wars made very long by diplomatic technicalities.
  • Perpetual war
    Perpetual war

    Perpetual war is a war with no clear ending conditions. It also describes a situation of ongoing tension that seems likely to escalate at any moment, similar to the Cold War....
    , a military and political concept.