combat operations
Armed conflict activities
Combat operations are military activities involving direct engagement with enemy forces—fighting, not just positioning or planning.
The term appears in official and journalistic contexts to describe active warfare: Combat operations in the region have intensified.
It often serves as formal language for what might otherwise simply be called fighting or battle: The president announced an end to combat operations.
- moraleGroup emotional well-being
- weaponryMilitary equipment collectively
- maneuverDeliberate tactical movement
- strategyPlanned approach to goals
- battle planScheme for combat
supply chain · terrain analysis · rules of engagement · ambush · night raid · theater · mobilization · ground forces · boots on the ground · artillery · fire mission · air support · raid · reconnaissance · forward operating base · assault · transport · doctrine
- Gulf WarDesert Storm, Desert Shield, Gulf War, Saddam Hussein, Norman Schwarzkopf
- Mexican-American WarZachary Taylor, Santa Anna, James K. Polk, Polk, Buena Vista
- military commandsattention, halt, fall back, advance, attack
- Croatian Warterritorial defense, Dalmatia, secession, statehood
- Finnish historyFinland, Winter War, Soviet invasion, Russian Empire, imperial rule
combat operationspeacekeeping missions
Military efforts to prevent conflict
peacekeeping operations · peacekeeping · humanitarian aid · relief operations · humanitarian assistance
combat operationspeace
Freedom from disturbance
ceasefire · armistice · truce · peacetime · demilitarization
combat operationsdiplomatic negotiations
Formal interstate dialogue
peace talks · diplomacy · treaty negotiations · mediation · conflict resolution
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