Fighting, as countries
Else clues• Attacking each other
• Battling
• Battling it out
• Belligerent
• Beyond diplomatic niceties
• Beyond saber-rattling
• Bush ___ (Bob Woodward bestseller)
• Clashing
• Clashing big-time
• Conflicting
• Crossing swords
• Doing battle
• Embattled
• Engaged in a battle
• Engaged in a campaign
• Engaged in a major conflict
• Engaged in combat
• Engaged in hostilities
• Engaged militarily
• Engaging the enemy
• Exchanging hostilities
• Feuding
• Fielding an army, perhaps
• Fiercely fighting
• Fighting
• Fighting battles
• Fighting big-time
• Fighting hard
• Fighting intensely: 2 wds.
• Fighting it out
• Fighting on the world stage
• Fighting: 2 wds.
• Foreigner's ___ With the World
• Hardly on friendly terms
• Having it out
• In a conflict
• In a hostile environment
• In a major conflict (with)
• In armed conflict
• In battle
• In combat
• In conflict with
• Like Iraq and Iran in the '80s
• Like much of the world, in Saving Private Ryan
• Like Russia and Japan, for most of 1904-'05
• Like Sri Lanka, currently
• Like the U.S. and Spain in 1898
• Making more guns and less butter?
• More than feuding
• More than just feuding
• More than just skirmishing
• Not getting along, to say the least
• Not just bickering
• Not just feuding
• Not just squabbling
• On hostile terms
• On the battlefield
• Openly hostile
• Really battling it out
• Really fighting
• Sparring
• Trading punches
• Violently engaged
• Way more than feuding