shadow war
English
Etymology
Noun
shadow war (countable and uncountable, plural shadow wars)
- A form of armed conflict, conducted secretly in the nexus between war and peace, where various actors utilise different means to achieve their goals.
- 2024 October 28, Scott Peterson, “Israeli strikes inside Iran cross a threshold. How will Iran respond?”, in The Christian Science Monitor[1], Boston, Massachusetts: Christian Science Publishing Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 9 December 2025:
- The Iran-Israel conflict was once limited largely to a shadow war.
- 2026 October 10, Constanze Stelzenmüller, “A very German spy scandal”, in FT Weekend (Opinion section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9:
- This is an urgent necessity as Russia ups its reckless shadow war in Europe.