Allied officials say that even though the combat effectiveness of Colonel Qaddafi's troops is eroding steadily, his forces are still trying to carry out sporadic attacks on civilians and allied forces in an effort to tie down NATO warplanes and buy time, even using guerrilla tactics, like the explosives-laden inflatable boats that allied forces thwarted near Misurata harbor last week.
American soldiers in Iraq still find themselves in a confusing combat environment (even though the "combat" is over), forced to fight in a foreign land where winning the "hearts and minds" of a people they know little about is crucial to the success of their mission.
And the voter-photo-I.D. law has been promoted as a way to combat voter fraud — even though, as the trial in that case demonstrated, there is no real fraud problem.
Even though heavy combat has ended, the continued attacks on American soldiers, the difficulties of adjusting to a peacekeeping role and the heat and chaos of Baghdad continue to exact a psychological toll.
The Department of Defense is buying two expensive fighters — the F-22 and the F-35 — that were originally conceived for air-to-air combat even though the United States has not lost a single plane in traditional dogfighting since the Vietnam War.
The partial improvement of survival prediction and risk association that were observed for OS endpoint were also obtained with respect to RFS. Between the merged data sets, Z-score normalization provided higher results than ComBat even though the difference is not significant (see supplementary information file, Table S3 to S6).
Yet, last month, McCain was seemingly spoiling for a fight with the Russians over Georgia, even though a third combat front for the US military would be a nightmare scenario.
Even though U.S. combat forces are exiting Iraq, just 3% were pleased with Obama policy there.
She said the German people tried to differentiate between the rebuilding and training activities under NATO and combat operations, even though the reality on the ground is far more complicated, with elements of both in both missions.
The meat of the game, though, is the combat.
Then, faced with what to do with the rest of his life, he took up a personal crusade to combat climate change, even though the odds were stacked against him, his soapbox was small, his audiences were measured in hundreds, and his critics were legion.
