Warfare involving striking clock? (4,4,6)

'striking clock?' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I cannot tell whether this works.

'warfare' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'warfare' could be 'battle' (I've seen this before) and 'battle' is found in the answer.
The remaining letters 'dingdong' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

'involving' acts as a link.

Can you help me to learn more?