war footing

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war footing (plural war footings)

  1. A state of preparedness for waging war.
    on a war footing
    move to a war footing
    • 2014 September 11, Uri Friedman, “Is It Peacetime or Wartime in America?”, in The Atlantic‎:
      After all, it was less than a year and a half ago that Obama promised, in an address at National Defense University, to remove America from the "perpetual war footing" it had assumed since the September 11 attacks.
    • 2021 September 8, “Network News: RMT on "war footing" in response to workforce cutback threats”, in RAIL, number 939, page 15:
      The RMT union has told Network Rail and train operators that it has moved to a "war footing" over planned service and workforce cutbacks.
    • 2023 September 30, Patrick Wintour, “‘No turning back’: how the Ukraine war has profoundly changed the EU”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:
      The EU is also now trying to put the European defence industry on to a war footing. Joint procurement of weapons by the European Defence Agency has been introduced for the first time.

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