wartime footing

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wartime footing (plural wartime footings)

  1. Alternative form of war footing
    • 2013 May 23, Barack Obama, Remarks by the President at the National Defense University[1]:
      And that is why I intend to engage Congress about the existing Authorization to Use Military Force, or AUMF, to determine how we can continue to fight terrorism without keeping America on a perpetual wartime footing.
    • 2022 November 29, Jonathan Turley, “Elon Musk triggers liberals, sends them into wartime footing over free speech”, in Fox News[2]:
      Washington this week is in full wartime footing. No, it's not over the Russian invasion of Ukraine or North Korean missiles or even Chinese expansionism. It is about Twitter and the threat of Elon Musk to restore free speech protections to social media.