British elections are infected with the vocabulary of combat: "war room" for headquarters, "battle bus" for coaches, "boots on the ground" for activists.
Above all, U.S. forces are no longer fighting a combat war in Afghanistan, meaning that Washington does not need as much Pakistani counterterrorism and countermilitancy assistance.
Mr Abe himself has made it clear that Japan's forces will not "participate in combat in wars such as the Gulf War and the Iraq War".
cbchill, Chapel Hill Could you talk about E.M.D.R. as a way to treat combat and war trauma?
Maybe it was just a reaction to a powerful and personal event because, make no mistake: to a soldier that has served in combat, the war is personal.
However, he also offered sobering words as a reminder that although Nato is seeking to end combat, the war is not over.
Extending the country's state of emergency by three months, he demanded changes to French law to allow authorities to better combat a "war of jihadi terror".
Mr Hague said it was vital to combat sexual war crimes of the kind seen in the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, central Africa - and now in Syria.
Combat and war, are of course, the primary theaters of fear.
Duckworth, the first female combat Iraq war veteran to win a congressional seat, announced that she was pregnant in September.
