Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tragic exchange was one of the first engagements of the ground war, an opening volley in the 36-hour battle of Khafji. It also represents this war's first documented case of U.S. casualties from "friendly fire" -- a combat euphemism for troops' getting shot, shelled or bombed by their own side...
Although polls released last week show an increase to about half in the number of respondents who expect combat to last six months or more -- considerably longer than White House and Pentagon officials predict -- about four-fifths of those polled continue to support the war. That is much more upbeat than in France, where a Paris Match/B.V.A. poll last week showed that 70% of respondents feared degeneration into a third world war. But the hint of U.S. pessimism underscored a widespread feeling that the American people had been misled, or perhaps been encouraged to mislead themselves, about how hard...
...Pentagon source said air combat missions were underway today and would continue "until we receive orders to the contrary" from President Bush...
Harrison says that combat should have been viewed "only as a last resort," but "in this particular war, it is clear that communication was still possible before it started...
...national anthems. It is television specials about the gas masks other people may have to use to save their lives, sound bites about our divine responsibility for the preservation of world democracy, TV station identification breaks playing "Over There" and "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and store windows proudly displaying flags, combat fatigues and patriotic T-shirts and underwear...