He has declared an end to combat operations in Afghanistan, but the Taliban fight on.
Obama and NATO allies in Afghanistan recently announced that combat operations will now last until 2014.
The "current priority" was to transfer the leadership of combat operations to the Afghan forces.
Bush declared an end to major combat operations in Iraq on May 1, 2003.
Lord Strathclyde reiterated the government's aim to end British involvement in combat operations in Afghanistan by 2015.
The incident sparked a huge controversy over the appropriate role of private military contractors in U.S. combat operations.
After combat operations exposed deficiencies, allies also worked to standardize air-to-air refueling nozzles and connecting bombs to aircraft.
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Baroness Royall of Blaisdon, replying for Labour, welcomed the government's timetable for ending combat operations in the conflict.
There will be a handover of combat operations to Afghan control next year.
It sets the end of May as the final date for combat operations.
The US has formally ended combat operations in Iraq but the country still faces problems dealing with violence and insurgency.
The ANA will assume sole responsibility for security in Helmand once coalition combat operations come to an end next year.
There's another issue NATO has to watch out for as its combat operations wind down in Afghanistan, says Mr. Daalder.
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Their staffs analyze the current environment and decide what forces they require to maintain peace, or if necessary, conduct combat operations.
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Yet virtually all coalition combat operations in Afghanistan these days are conducted against the homegrown insurgency, not al Qaeda's foreign fighters.
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The unit will include several air vehicles, a ground control station, satellite datalinks and various other subsystems essential to combat operations.
Even before the troop reductions were announced, the Pentagon was planning to cease U.S. participation in major combat operations during 2014.
At the ISAF meeting this morning, we agreed that Afghan forces will take the lead for combat operations next year in mid-2013.
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar announced the deployment Tuesday but insisted the troops would not take part in offensive combat operations.
While predominantly Muslim Turkey is a member of the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan, its troops don't usually take part in combat operations.
The UK will fund Afghan security forces after British combat operations in their country cease in 2014, the defence secretary has said.
The date at which all combat operations are handed over to Afghan forces is still meant to be the end of 2014.
Smaller European states are heading toward de facto disarmament, with little ability to support peace-keeping missions let alone engage in combat operations.
And then, on 31 December 2014, all Nato combat operations will stop.
How many of these people are really necessary given the fact that they are no longer mounting combat operations is open to question.
Prime Minister David Cameron had previously set a deadline of the end of December 2014 for the UK to stop its combat operations.
"It's about being involved in combat operations, and this clearly contradicts neutrality, " said Martin Baltisser, of the nationalist Swiss People's party, AP reported.
He served in and led our most elite special forces units for decades, including in many of our most dangerous recent combat operations.
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