In short, patriotism can and should go beyond the battlefield.

FORBES: Economic Patriotism

Fenton sees autonomous, flying robots moving beyond the battlefield, perhaps being used to fight fires as well as battles--with a single human able to survey a five-alarm blaze from the safety of an armchair.

FORBES: Robots Of War

They took on responsibilities once reserved only for those with considerably more seniority - responsibilities that extended beyond the base or the battlefield to the politics of Afghanistan, to the politics of Iraq, to the economies of those countries, and to the development tasks that ultimately will lay the groundwork for us to leave behind stable countries that will not threaten us.

WHITEHOUSE: Vice President Biden gives Remarks at the Pentagon