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A pitched
battle
A straight
fight
Air support
All out
war
All's fair in love and
war
An
army
marches on its stomach
An
army
of one ( United States
Army
advertising slogan )
An uphill
battle
Army
Dreamers ( Kate Bush song )
Army
strawberries ( military slang term for prunes )
Art Of
War
( Sun Tzu book )
Art of
war
Articles of
war
Barmy
army
Battle
of the sexes
Battle
of wits
Battle
ready
Battle
royal
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Battle
stations
Be all that you can be ( United States
Army
advertising slogan )
Be all you can be ( US
Army
advertising slogan )
Be the best ( British
Army
advertising slogan )
Between the wars ( The period between WWI and WWII )
Black and white unite and
fight
( Political slogan )
Blood and guts
Charge of the Light Brigade ( British cavalry charge against Russian
army
in the Crimean
War
and title of a poem by Tennyson )
Class
warfare
Combat fatigue
Combat ready
Come out
fighting
Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of
war
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Cut and thrust
Dad's
Army
( BBC comedy television series )
Don't mention the
war
( A catchphrase from Faulty Towers )
Don't panic ( A catchphrase from Dad's
Army
)
Don't you know there's a
war
on? ( WWII slogan )
Drummed out of the
army
Field Marshall ( the highest rank in the British
Army
)
Fight
Club ( Brad Pitt movie )
Fight
For The Right To Party ( Beastie Boys song )
Fight
back
Fight
back the tears
Fight
fire with fire
Fight
like a man
Fight
like cat and dog
Fight
off
Fight
or flight
Fight
shy
Fight
the good
fight
Fight
the power
Fight
tooth and nail
Fighting
chance
Fighting
fit
Fighting
mad
Fighting
talk
First strike
Fog of
war
Gang
warfare
Gentlemen, you can't
fight
in here! This is the
War
Room ( Dr.Strangelove )
Germ
warfare
Get ready to rumble ( prepare to
fight
or do
battle
)
Go down
fighting
Go for a
soldier
( Enlist in the
army
)
Go to
war
Guerrilla
warfare
Had a good
war
( to have been successful during a military campaign )
Half the
battle
Hand-to-gland combat ( slang term for masturbation )
He who fights and runs away, may live to
fight
another day
Heart to God, hand to man ( The Salvation
Army
advertising slogan )
How goes the battle?
I want YOU for the US
Army
( World
War
I and World
War
II advertising slogan )
If you vote for Goldwater, you'll get a
war
in Vietnam ( Political slogan )
In the Army, the edge ( Australian
Army
advertising slogan )
In the heat of
battle
Join the professionals ( British
Army
advertising slogan )
Kung Fu
Fighting
( Carl Douglas song )
La Belle Epoque ( the golden age or beautiful era preceding the First World
War
)
Lean mean
fighting
machine
Let
battle
commence
Live to
fight
another day
Loose lips sink ships ( World
War
II advertising slogan )
Make love not
war
Make
war
Masters Of
War
( Bob Dylan song )
Open
warfare
( engaged in active
fighting
)
Pick a
fight
Pillow
fight
Play the old
soldier
Red
Army
Fraction ( German left wing terrorist group also call Red
Army
Faction )
Richard of York gave
battle
in vain
Running
battle
Saturday Night's Alright For
Fighting
( Elton John song )
Send a salami to your boy in the
army
Shooting
war
Soldier
of fortune
Soldier
on
Some of our best men are women ( United States
Army
advertising slogan )
Spoiling for a
fight
Spoils of
war
Stand up
fight
Street
Fighting
Man ( Rolling Stones song )
The Adventure of the Blanched
Soldier
( Sherlock Holmes story )
The
Army
Game ( BBC comedy television series )
The
Battle
of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton
The Cold
War
The
Fighting
Cowboy ( Nickname of James Tillis )
The Sally
Army
( Nickname of the Salvation
Army
)
The Shadow knows ( A catchphrase from the crime
fighting
vigilante )
The Tartan
Army
The
War
Of The Roses ( Michael Douglas movie )
The
army
national guard, you can ( US
Army
National Guard advertising slogan )
The
battle
of the bulge
The fog of
war
( confusion caused by the chaos of
battle
)
The forgotten
army
The fortunes of
war
The race is not to the swift, nor the
battle
to the strong ( quotation from the Bible - Ecclesiastes
The
war
to end wars
Tinker Tailor
Soldier
Spy ( John Le Carre book )
Tittle tattle lost the
battle
( WWII slogan )
Trench
warfare
( combat where troops face each other in trenches )
Wage
war
War
and Peace ( Leo Tolstoy book )
War
baby ( someone born during the
war
- especially the illegitimate child of a
soldier
)
War
cemetery
War
chalking
War
criminal ( someone who has flouted the Geneva Convention )
War
debt
War
driving
War
eagle ( the golden eagle - used by Native Americans to make headdresses )
War
footing ( preparedness to
fight
a military campaign )
War
game ( a simulation of
war
intended as preparation )
War
hero ( someone who acted heroically during a
war
)
War
is hell
War
movie ( a film with
war
as the subject matter )
War
of nerves
War
of words
War
paint
War
room ( the place where
war
plans are directed )
War
torn ( severely damaged by
war
)
War
weary ( tired of conflict )
War
widow ( a woman whose husband died in a
war
)
War
zone ( the area that a
war
has taken place )
We will
fight
on the beaches
What did you do in the
war
Daddy?
When
war
is declared, truth is the first casualty
You and whose army?
You can't
fight
city hall
You stupid boy! ( A catchphrase from Dad's
Army
)
You're in the
army
now