theater of war
noun phrase
: the entire land, sea, and air area that is or may become involved directly in war operations compare theater of operations
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Only then will Western policymakers be able to achieve the real criteria for a victory: ensuring that Putin’s war of aggression does not pay off for Russia and that Europe does not continue to be a theater of war.
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Norbert Röttgen, Foreign Affairs, 22 Dec. 2023
Covert strikes by Ukraine in Sudan would mark a dramatic and provocative expansion of Kyiv’s theater of war against Moscow.
—Victoria Butenko, CNN, 19 Sep. 2023
Doctors brought X-ray machines to a theater of war for the first time in Greece.
—Richard Byrne, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2023
In Season 2, the action shifts to the North African theater of war and one of the protagonists is Lieutenant Rajib Pal of the British Indian Army, played by Mir.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 31 July 2023
The email was from Patrick Lucas, an American living in Beijing who shared stories of veterans who fought in the China-Burma-India theater of war on his Remembering Shared Honor website, rshonor.net.
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 28 May 2023
To judge by the results achieved in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other recent theaters of war, this imperative will only continue to wreak havoc in the name of freedom, democracy, and humane values.
—Andrew J. Bacevich, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2020
Norbert Röttgen, Foreign Affairs, 22 Dec. 2023
Covert strikes by Ukraine in Sudan would mark a dramatic and provocative expansion of Kyiv’s theater of war against Moscow.
—Victoria Butenko, CNN, 19 Sep. 2023
Doctors brought X-ray machines to a theater of war for the first time in Greece.
—Richard Byrne, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2023
In Season 2, the action shifts to the North African theater of war and one of the protagonists is Lieutenant Rajib Pal of the British Indian Army, played by Mir.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 31 July 2023
The email was from Patrick Lucas, an American living in Beijing who shared stories of veterans who fought in the China-Burma-India theater of war on his Remembering Shared Honor website, rshonor.net.
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 28 May 2023
To judge by the results achieved in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other recent theaters of war, this imperative will only continue to wreak havoc in the name of freedom, democracy, and humane values.
—Andrew J. Bacevich, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2020
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