war-weary

[ wawr-weer-ee ]

/ ˈwɔrˌwɪər i /

utterly exhausted and dejected by war, especially after a prolonged conflict.

(of an airplane) damaged beyond use except as scrap or as a source of salvageable spare parts.

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war-wea·ri·ness, noun

While Americans are war-weary, two-thirds think it is good to be engaged economically around the globe.
Will Rand Paul’s Unorthodox Foreign Policy Fit in the GOP?|Kristen Soltis Anderson|April 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
By its final chapter The Tender Soldier addresses head-on the unrealistic expectations—and limitations—of a war-weary superpower.
Send in the Marines—and the Anthropologists too?|John Kael Weston|August 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Already, Hezbollah faces image problems at home in war-weary Lebanon for its role backing Bashar al Assad's regime in Syria.
Hezbollah's Return To Terror|Ali Gharib|February 21, 2013|DAILY BEAST
If a strike leads ineluctably toward the kinds of things Andrew discusses above, war-weary Americans won't forget how it started.
Does Bibi Have the American People Hypnotized or Something?|Michael Tomasky|September 17, 2012|DAILY BEAST

Here in the U.S., a war-weary public has welcomed the withdrawal of American forces from Iraq.
Santorum Rips Obama ‘Weakness,’ Makes Political Hay of Quran Burning|P.J. Crowley|February 26, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The fact that Paris was only a ghost of her former 61self made no impression on war-weary troopers.
Aces Up|Covington Clarke
The Germans, war-weary, were stunned by the vigor of the fresh army that once in action would not be denied.
Air Service Boys Flying for Victory|Charles Amory Beach
There was an air of glad youth in them which came like a Spring wind over our war-weary spirits.
War Posters Issued by Belligerent and Neutral Nations 1914-1919|Various
In the mean time the war-weary nation was clamoring for peace.
Bolshevism|John Spargo
It was war-weary, and its weariness was not of apathy, but of exhaustion.
A Poor Wise Man|Mary Roberts Rinehart