Type of warfare which seeks complete obliteration of a state, people, or minority group
This article is about warfare with the intent of obliterating a state or group of people. For warfare with the intent of entirely incapacitating a military in order to force them to surrender, see Battle of annihilation. For the relationship between war and genocide, see war and genocide.
See also: Total war
A war of annihilation (German: Vernichtungskrieg) or war of extermination is a type of war in which the goal is the complete annihilation of a state, a people or an ethnic minority through genocide or through the destruction of their livelihood. The goal can be outward-directed or inward, against elements of one's own population. The goal is not like other types of warfare, the recognition of limited political goals, such as recognition of a legal status (such as in a war of independence), control of disputed territory (as in war of aggression or defensive war), or the total military defeat of an enemy state.
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