is there a word for when operational difficulties cause military leadership to engage in a spiraling expansion of war aims instead of the limitation of war aims?

it happened here in china and, to a much more limited degree, in indochina 20 years later

is there a word for when operational difficulties cause military leadership to engage in a spiraling expansion of war aims instead of the limitation of war aims?

it happened here in china and, to a much more limited degree, in indochina 20 years later