Major war
World war
World war noun - A war in which the major nations of the world are involved.
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Off-road trucks designed for heavy hauling in the post-World War II years, made to become artillery tractors or tank tractors if a major war happened again.
Source: Big Badass Rig - One among them is a crash nuclear arms race after the Suez Crisis blows up into a major war, a nuclear Third World War, and rampant nuclear proliferation in the aftermath.
Source: Alternate History / Literature - The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen features Orlando (based loosely on the titular character of a book by Virginia Woolf), a gender-changing Immortal who fights in every major war from Troy to World War II, as well as causing the rift between Romulus and Remus and posing for the Mona Lisa.
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