Military_operation

The Military of a Possessor (either a nation, institution, or private individual) conducts large-scale activities in a Area to accomplish military or combined military/non-military goals. These groups are known to have carried out attacks on international coalition forces operating in Afghanistan. Anti-piracy operations will continue while new strategies are developed. This frame construes the operation asymmetrically: the Military acts with respect to military and political entities in the target Area. Compare this to (usually, but not always, lower-level and violent) military actions that can be understood symmetrically (war, battle, encounter, engagement, etc).