Most obviously, perhaps, Ultron, artificial intelligence and villain of this sequel, appears to don the Hulkbuster armour from the Iron Man comics – Tony Stark's solution if sustained combat with his unpredictable ally becomes necessary.
Chiarelli, who taught political science at West Point and has advanced degrees in public administration and national security, experienced sustained combat for the first time in 2004, in Iraq, as the head of the First Cavalry Division.
The speech reflected the issues within the military about the merits and costs of an all-volunteer force fighting two wars for nearly a decade, the longest sustained combat in American history.
Across 180 minutes of combined debate for New York's two Senate seats, the wars consumed all of 7 minutes and 20 seconds — 4 percent of the available time devoted to the country's longest period of sustained combat.
The Marines in Company K, the unit that had encountered the heaviest and most sustained combat since the operation began, swept a wide area of agricultural fields and small compounds, skirmishing with Taliban fighters as they moved.
In Washington, Jeffrey White, a former Defense Intelligence Agency intelligence officer and specialist on the Syria military, said Tuesday that sustained combat between government troops and the rebels had spread to nine of the country's 14 provinces.
