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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Unlike many other guidance systems, GPS guidance has a distinct advantage for all weather, day or night combat operations.

与其他制导系统不同，GPS导航在所有天气环境和昼夜条件下具有明显的优势。

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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.

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Eikenberry and McChrystal stressed the long-term nature of the U.S.commitment to the people of Afghanistan, long after the transition of combat operations from coalition to Afghan forces begins in 2011.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

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