My fellow Americans: Major combat operations in Iraq have ended...

亲爱的美国同胞们：伊拉克主要战事已经结束……

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And Ketsana actually provides an opportunity to think beyond traditional combat operations.

事实上，“凯萨娜”提供了跳出传统作战方式进行思考的机会。

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Their mission will be to support combat operations as an artillery battalion. (Logan Mock-Bunting/Getty Images)

他们的任务是支援一个炮兵营的作战。

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She believed that training women to serve as support pilots at home could free up men to fly combat operations overseas.

VOA: special.2010.11.08

But many of the NATO troops are not allowed to engage in combat operations or even to operate in violent parts of the country.

VOA: standard.2009.08.11

The expanding U.S.advisory role coincides with a decrease in combat operations in the months before U.S.troops are due to withdraw by the end of December 2011.

VOA: standard.2009.07.28

He has declared an end to combat operations in Afghanistan, but the Taliban fight on.

NPR: Obama Refocuses Terror Threat To Pre-9/11 Level

Obama and NATO allies in Afghanistan recently announced that combat operations will now last until 2014.

CNN: Is America on the path to 'permanent war'?

The "current priority" was to transfer the leadership of combat operations to the Afghan forces.

BBC: Foreign Office questions