WordNet
n. several related operations aimed at achieving a particular goal (usually within geographical and temporal constraints) [syn: campaign]
Wikipedia
In the military sciences, the term military campaign applies to large scale, long duration, significant military strategy plan incorporating a series of inter-related military operations or battles forming a distinct part of a larger conflict often called a war. The term derives from the plain of Campania, a place of annual wartime operations by the armies of the Roman Republic.
Usage examples of "military campaign".
He was so violently anti-British that when the Japanese attacked the Americans he offered his services to Japan, organized an Indian Revolutionary Army and led a military campaign against India.
What they stress is that they are not willing to launch an open-ended military campaign or a military campaign that tries to topple Saddam on the cheap.
Harrelson even assailed the United States' food-drop/military campaign in Afghanistan as an unprovoked act of aggression.
The operation was somewhat like a military campaign-an analogy that would have appalled Megan-with every effort made to apply our maximum force to the key vulnerabilities of the enemy.
The operation was somewhat like a military campaign, with every effort made to apply maximum force to the key vulnerabilities of the enemy.