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A large fire in a scrubland or prairie, as opposed to a forest fire, which occurs in forests..
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.
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.
If a brushfire conflict does threaten superpower interests, or the general peace, a superpower may intervene in an unusual way.
Use brush fire when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Brush fire means A large fire in a scrubland or prairie, as opposed to a forest fire, which occurs in forests..
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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.
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