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  • noun military The fighting of a war

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Examples

  • If we are going to find ourselves intervening, more in a policing role, rather than in overt warfighting, is the equipment we are buying entirely appropriate and are the force structures and training at all adequate to the projected tasks.

    Questions, questions… Richard 2006

  • Central Asian and Horn of Africa nations to wage war upon this enemy for almost 8 years now without so much as a single scrap of paper that could be referred to as a warfighting doctrine.

    Northeast Intelligence Network 2009

  • The amount of time spent in legal consultations and "political correctness training" take away from the amount of time available for training for things such as warfighting and nation building.

    Is our military too 'P.C.'? 2009

  • The trouble is that there is not only a political divide between the European and the US-led approach, but a growing schism in military philosophies – a divide between conventional "warfighting" and counterinsurgency operations.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Richard 2007

  • Perversely, it is the "soft power" European Union which offers the military the best prospect of equipping and maintaining a modern "warfighting" army, in its grandiose plans for the European Rapid Reaction Force ERRF.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Peter Troy 2007

  • Perversely, it is the "soft power" European Union which offers the military the best prospect of equipping and maintaining a modern "warfighting" army, in its grandiose plans for the European Rapid Reaction Force ERRF.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Richard 2007

  • There is not only a political divide between the European and the US-led approach, but a growing schism in military philosophies – a divide between conventional "warfighting" and counterinsurgency operations.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Peter Troy 2007

  • They want an army equipped for high-tech "warfighting" and do not want to buy counter-insurgency equipment that will affect their plans for acquiring their shiny new toys.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Richard 2007

  • Currently, we still need the decision as to whether we are going to undertake "warfighting" or counter-insurgency operations – or both.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Richard 2007

  • The rise of JAG authority over every detail of warfighting means that the Pentagon would be exquisitely sensitive to arguable violations of international law in carrying out operations in cyberspace.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Going Wobbly on Russia’s Cybersecurity Disarmament Proposal? 2010

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