The first combat scene, as much a chase as a fight, occurs only a few minutes into the film and begins with a masked figure skimming over moonlit temple rooftops and silkily flying up walls.
"Working with local councils and tourist agencies, we can try and combat that as much as possible.
If anyone needed evidence of the frontline role played by dogs in war these days, here is the latest: the four-legged, wet-nosed troops used to sniff out mines, track down enemy fighters and clear buildings are struggling with the mental strains of combat nearly as much as their human counterparts.
Nearly 25 years later, America and its allies risk a similar failure of nerve and will.This week Leon Panetta, America's defence secretary, has aired hopes that NATO soldiers in Afghanistan can finish their combat mission as much as 18 months early by the second half of next year, rather than the end of 2014 (see article).
Larkin loves combat sports as much as the next guy, but as he makes abundantly clear, we're not talking about squaring off against opponents in honorable fights.
The Central Intelligence Agency analysed the effects of Operation Deliberate Force and Operations Maestral 2 and Sana, and noted that the NATO air campaign did not degrade VRS combat capability as much as some might think because the airstrikes were never primarily directed at field-deployed units, but at command and control infrastructure.
While foreign countries were hailing Libya's rebel administration as the country's legitimate government, rebel fighters were showing their usual failings in combat as another much-heralded offensive in the east failed to capture the oil town of Brega.
It's on Twitter, though, that hashtags have really come into their own, serving as a kind of function code for social interaction #ifyoulikethatkindofthing. Computing can be as much combat as collaboration between people and machines, and the Scunthorpe problem is a perfect example.
