"armed action" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to any military or violent response to a situation. For example: "The President has threatened to take armed action against the rebel forces."
"Assad does not fight against his own population but against those who take armed action against the government.
The Houthis have a habit of striking peace agreements, pocketing the concessions they win and then resuming armed action.
In the past, the guerrillas recruited union leaders as part of their strategy of combining armed action with political agitation.
To most of the world, America looks like a cross between a heavily armed action hero and a Lexus ad.
The P.K.K. was not carrying out armed action and the Turkish army was not conducting significant military operations against the rebels.
However, respecting established UK readings of the UN charter, he made an effort to get a specific security council resolution that might justify armed action in Iraq.
Tunisian Salafis are identified either as scripturalists, who pursue a quiet, nonpolitical devotion to their creed, or as jihadis, who support armed action.
But that does not mean they would oppose armed action against Israeli soldiers or settlers in the occupied territories and there are guns by the hundred at large in the self-rule areas.
Otherwise, people who now opposed armed action would say the action had been proved justified.In his new book, Mr Blix makes clear that he was one of those who opposed the use of force.
DEEP inside a nondescript building in SoHo, a two-story steel vault marked "Fort Knox" holds a huge arsenal of weapons that has armed action heroes and their adversaries, fake armies and feds, and Tony Soprano.
But all the indications are that he fitted the profile of an individual carrying out armed action for political or religious reasons, sometimes mixed with personal ones, alone or with a small group of helpers.
