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[[File:Sun Tzu portrait.jpg|thumbnail|right|200px|"What is essential in war is victory, not prolonged operations." - [[Sun Tzu]] ]]
A '''war of attrition''' is a war in which the competing sides seek to win by exhausting the enemy's resources, rather than by a decisive battlefield victory. Such wars tend to be long-lasting, with relatively static battlefronts. Probably the best modern example of a war of attrition was the conflict on the [[Western Front]] in the [[First World War]] (1914-1918); another is the [[Iran-Iraq War]] (1980-1988). Wars often start out as [[maneuver warfare]], but some turn into wars of attrition.
A '''war of attrition''' is a war in which the competing sides seek to win by exhausting the enemy's resources, rather than by a decisive battlefield victory. Such wars tend to be long-lasting, with relatively static battlefronts. Probably the best modern example of a war of attrition was the conflict on the [[Western Front]] in the [[First World War]] (1914-1918); another is the [[Iran-Iraq War]] (1980-1988). Wars often start out as [[maneuver warfare]], but some turn into wars of attrition.