vertical escalation
theater of war
hot zone
warfare
Thucydides Trap
warfaring
go to war
conventional warfare
war
antiarms
Thucydides trap
up the ante
irregular warfare
conflagration
wartime
cold war
horizontal escalation
belligerence
hostilities
belligerency
blitzkrieg
wildfire
vertical proliferation
war bride
shooting war
weapon of mass disruption
biopolitics
sabre-rattling
armament
outdeploy
sabre-rattle
arms
arming
overkill
equipping
hybrid warfare
weaponry
go nuclear
belligerent
come to blows
confrontation
combat
nuclear warfare
proliferation
war zone
armageddon
weaponism
ruse de guerre
armed response
warful
remunition
bewarred
assail
attack
warfighting
invasionary
asymmetric warfare
hot war
clash
military blockade
aggression
siege
zap 'em up
infight
turf war
beleaguering
overarm
pitched battle
besieging
open up
fight
hopl-
counterwar
escalatingly
post-kinetic
counterinvasion
cockpit
military posture
philopolemic
posture
shootout
arms race
strength
military strength
military capability
antipreparedness
running battle
second-order threat
antigas
battleful
iWar
warmaker
mutual assured destruction
siegecraft