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*** Etymology
From [en].
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A large fire in a scrubland or prairie , as opposed to a forest fire , which occur s in forest s.
2. [en] A war that arise s suddenly and is limited in scope or area .
3. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1958 | author=United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Foreign Trade Policy | title=Foreign Trade Policy: Hearings, Eighty-fifth Congress | page=651
|passage=It may be a BRUSHFIRE operation or an operation on the scale of the
Korean war; it will certainly not involve the home territories of the United
States and Soviet Russia as theaters of hostilities.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1959 | author=United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations | title=Financial statements of field commanders | page=251
|passage=I grant you it may not be in the actual application of mechanical
devices, but if you have the volume to have supremacy in a major war it is
obvious you would have the volume to take care of a BRUSHFIRE war.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1963 | author=Philip Van Slyck | title=Peace: the Control of National Power | page=14
|passage=If a BRUSHFIRE conflict does threaten superpower interests, or the
general peace, a superpower may intervene in an unusual way.}}
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