Actual combat would probably not take place until early next year during the cool of the winter.

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Even if actual combat never occurs, whoever controls the high north will wield enormous influence in the coming decades.

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Russian armed forces are currently providing decisive material and logistic -- and some actual combat -- support to Abkhazian separatists in Georgia.

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The American military is generally much more reluctant to allow that, and to me, this shows that the American military is not an overwhelming presence in any of the actual combat situations that are happening now.

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So Bruce Dohrenwend, the researcher in New York, went and found what he called a gold mine of data, actual combat records that allowed him to verify the claims of a sample of 260 veterans in the original study.

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There are lots of action animations which make combat feel somewhat more visceral, but those animations are no substitute for actual tactical-action combat.

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You have missed by a country mile the actual problems with the combat in Skyrim.

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We have no details yet on how the use of these rare in-game artifacts and abilities will affect the actual calculations of healing, damage, spells, etc. during combat against other players.

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Have we disposed of that issue or are we still grappling with the actual--you know, how much women can do and the limit to what women can do in combat?

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