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To: combjelly who wrote (534261)	12/4/2009 4:57:01 PM
From: TimF	2 Recommendations Respond to of 1575178

Pretty much always. Name any war where there wasn't a struggle over territory. Well in some ways it is about territory in a very long range vison/grand strategy sense, the war against Al Qaeda is one on territory but in a day to day, or even year to year sense it mostly isn't (except in the sense that the effort against the Taliban is indirectly an effort against Al Qaeda). That's one such war. The wars against the Barbary pirates had "boots on the ground" but where not really about territory. Those two examples are with about 30 seconds of thought, if I cared to really make an effort I could come up with more. Boots on the ground pretty much defines a war. We've used boots on the ground against Al Qaeda.