wartime measures
Conflict emergency provisions
Wartime measures are emergency actions taken by governments during armed conflict—rationing, conscription, censorship, curfews, expanded executive powers.
The phrase implies temporary suspension of normal freedoms justified by military necessity: Wartime measures restricted travel along the coast.
Such measures often outlast the conflicts that prompted them.
- curfewsMandated evening restrictions
- blackout curtainsOpaque window coverings blocking light
- defense tacticsProtective strategic methods
- war bondsGovernment debt for combat
- censorship lawsStatutes limiting permitted expression
loose lips · rationing · ration books · food stamps · price controls · evacuation plans · intelligence gathering · economic sanctions · troop mobilization · internment camps · reconnaissance missions · public speeches · misinformation campaigns · trade embargoes · draft dodgers · war effort · martial law · counteroffensives
wartime measureslimited government
Officially bounded political authority
due process · habeas corpus · individual rights · deregulation · civil liberties
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