Total war is based on the idea of defeating the enemy by attacking everything including the soldiers, citizens and even supplies in order to destroy the will of the enemy to fight. Examples include the warfare that was conducted by ancient civilizations, and by the Nazis during World War II
North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas
Thucydides viewed war and politics as being inherently intertwined, since he believed that war was simply the means that humans resorted to when political discussions failed.