The notion of the total war has become an integral aspect of the war lexicon. It pertains to a war which happens to be unrestricted in its nature and scope in regard to the territory covered, weapons used, combatants involved, or goals pursued, especially in which the rules of the conflict are often openly disregarded. The Great War or the First World War was the result of an amalgamation of a number of factors which harped on the marriage of scientific progress with skilfully projected illusions of expansion and security. The Great war was premised on the dual ideas of science and superiority wherein scientific progress was evident in the nature of weapons deployed; the notion of superiority was manifested in the doctrine of looking at war as a mode of purifier which establishes the rule of the superior over the inferior ("Theme 9: The Great War", 2020).