Warfighting vs Operation - What's the difference?
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(military) The fighting of a war
*{{quote-news, year=2009, date=September 24, author=Martin Butcher, title=Brown can be bold on disarmament, work=Guardian
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The method by which a device performs its function.
The method or practice by which actions are done.
The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
* John Locke
* Dryden
A planned undertaking.
A business or organization.
(medicine) a surgical procedure.
(computing, logic, mathematics) a procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands).
(military) a military campaign (e.g. )
(obsolete) Effect produced; influence.
* Fuller
In military terms the difference between warfighting and operation
is that warfighting is the fighting of a war while operation is a military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm.warfighting
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*Used attributively to describe forces and materials used to fight a war.operation
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(wikipedia operation)Noun
(en noun)- It is dangerous to look at the beam of a laser while it is in operation .
- The pain and sickness caused by manna are the effects of its operation on the stomach.
- Speculative painting, without the assistance of manual operation , can never attain to perfection.
- The police ran an operation to get vagrants off the streets.
- The ''Katrina'' relief operation was considered botched.
- We run our operation from a storefront.
- They run a multinational produce-supply operation .
- She had an operation to remove her appendix.
- The bards had great operation on the vulgar.