WordNet
n. a region in which active military operations are in progress; "the army was in the field awaiting action"; "he served in the Vietnam theater for three years" [syn: field, field of operations, theater, theatre, theatre of operations]
Usage examples of "theater of operations".
When General Taylor confirmed Hale's story, Ike gave his big laugh and said Hale was the only man in the entire European Theater of Operations to pull this one off.
That would cost far too much for this backwater theater of operations.
That meant that Earth ships had to make use of every possible security measure for traffic between Grautier and the overlapping zone, which was only a few light-years away and at the same time the theater of operations for the Arkonide blockade fleet, so that the Arkonides would not learn where the base was.
Marge seemed to like Rupen, too, and she wrote often to him during the five months that she and Mariya nursed aboard ship ferrying ill and wounded servicemen home from the European Theater of Operations.
Waterhouse sketches out a freehand map of the Southwest Pacific theater of operations, from Burma to the Solomons, from Nippon to New Zealand.
Instead, Baghdad stuffed as many units as it possibly could into the Kuwaiti Theater of Operations (KTO) to try to convince the coalition that a war would be long and bloody.
In spite of the conditions in other theaters, we will have to consider Central America a new theater of operations and put together the forces to execute those plans as soon as possible.
He knew his good friend Billy Simmons, a Marine helicopter gunship pilot, was serving in the Pacific Theater of Operations (PTO) somewhere, and he was concerned for him.
The computer that ran the map held a trid view of all the land in the theater of operations.
Somewhere in the European theater of operations is a man who's getting his hands on communications addressed to you.