fighting, battling, embroiled, campaigning, girding, pitting, intensifying, engaged, courting, conducting, rages, striving, pursuing, launching, trying, exerting, advocating, seeking, mired, resisting, plotting, spearheaded, suing, undergoing, lobbying, mobilizing, facing, pushing, preparing, bracing, gearing, encroaching, confronting, fomenting, enmeshed, wreaking, inveighing, sniping, warred, escalating, wooing, demonizing, retaliating, embarking, vowing, attempting, saber rattling, assailing, grappling, instigating, bankrolled, provoking, vilify, politicking, resorting, targeting, unleashed, witnessing, skirmishing, slogging, portraying, undertaking, bombarding, demonize, readying, perpetrating, strategizing, pursing, pressuring, ravaging, arguing, redoubling, hectoring, cowing, asserting, riven, championing, vying, litigating, undermining, repulsing, backing, infesting, endured, mounted, unseat, crusading, countering, conscripting, endeavoring, maneuvering, jockeying, thwarting, dragooning, inflicting, petitioning, maligning, colluding, struggling, entrenched, dirty tricks, aiming, forwarding, furtherance, prosecution, securing, sending, buying, elimination, enforcement, fostering, overcoming, reconstitution, scavenging, use, working, abolition, alleviation, amelioration, bestowal, contestation, continuance, nonnuclear, interventionist, amphibious, colonialist, communist, fascist, imperialist, interventionary, mohammedan, neocolonial, standby, absolutist, absorptive, allied, anarchic, balkan, barbary, bismarckian, bolshevik

combat ship, war, warfare, warship, war vessel