limited war vs warfare

limited war and warfare both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
limited war	Yes	No	No	No
warfare	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, warfare is a hypernym of limited war; that is, warfare is a word with a broader meaning than limited war:

limited war: a war whose objective is less than the unconditional defeat of the enemy
warfare: the waging of armed conflict against an enemy

Other hypernyms of limited war include war.

limited war (noun)	warfare (noun)
a war whose objective is less than the unconditional defeat of the enemy	the waging of armed conflict against an enemy
	an active struggle between competing entities