ATWAR

Fighting hard

• 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 intensely: 2 wds.

• Fighting it out

• Fighting on the world stage

• Fighting, as countries

• 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