"combat theatre" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used in military contexts to refer to a specific area or region where combat or military operations take place. Example: "The soldiers were deployed to the combat theatre in the Middle East to support the ongoing mission." Note: In this example, "combat theatre" could also be replaced with "theater of operations" without changing the meaning. Both phrases refer to the same concept of a designated area for military operations.
The 565th Engineer Battalion built the "birthday bridge" – the longest float bridge constructed in a combat theatre with a span of 580 meters – over the Tigris River in Tikrit on Saddam Hussein's birthday, 28 April 2003.
This same Congressional Research Service report points out that approximately 20percentt of these veterans have been diagnosed with PTSD and/or depression, and more than 287,000 have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury (TBI) as a result of their time spent in the combat theatre.
This latest one moves away from the familiar combat theatres to focus on 1960s-era Congo, just after independence.
The time required to reach destinations around the world contracted dramatically, from a journey of weeks to only a few days, or, within most combat theatres, to a few hours.
The WAAAF had been formed in 1941 and eventually made up thirty-one per cent of RAAF ground staff; its members were primarily employed in technical trades and were not permitted to serve in combat theatres.
Saw combat in Pacific Theatre during WWII as US Army artillery spotter, and MP in post-war Tokyo.
Considering the rapidly advancing state of drone technology including the deployment of drones for both surveillance and combat in military theatres from Afghanistan to North Africa the use of an explosive drone to eliminate a political leader seems, if anything, an inevitable development.
Filming combat in the European Theatre became for him an emotionally indispensable "escape into reality".
No longer could personnel serving in traditional noncombat roles be considered outside the theatre of combat, as there were no fixed front lines.
It occurred while he was ensconced in a safe-house in Pakistan — a country that, for better or for worse, belongs to a wider U.S. military theatre of combat in South Asia.
The theatre of combat was a metaphor for Malraux until the start of the Spanish Civil War, in 1936, which gave his heroic persona its first live exercise on a stage.
