Noncombatants refer to individuals who are not directly involved in armed conflict or military operations. The antonyms of noncombatants are combatants or warriors who are directly involved in armed conflict or military operations. Combatants are individuals who fight in wars or engage in military operations on behalf of their countries or organizations. In contrast, noncombatants are civilians who may be affected by war but do not actively take part in it. The use of noncombatants in warfare has become a contentious issue in recent times due to the increased targeting of civilians during armed conflicts. Antonyms for noncombatants remind us of the stark contrast between those who fight and those who do not in times of war.

What are the antonyms for Noncombatants?

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Usage examples for Noncombatants

Famous quotes with Noncombatants

• Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected.

  Martin Van Creveld
• This war has descended upon mankind as a curse and a warning. It is a curse inasmuch as it is brutalizing man on a scale hitherto unknown. All distinctions between combatants and noncombatants have been abolished. No one and nothing is to be spared. Lying has been reduced to an art.It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.

  Mahatma Gandhi
• President Clinton has made a few feeble swipes at addressing this issue [school violence], but one can only gape at the unintentionally comic spectacle of this man chastising the gun-lobby and America's love of violent movies while he rains bombs on Yugoslavia, where at least twenty noncombatants have already died for every innocent student at Columbine High. It is like listening to a man with a crack-pipe in his hand lecture children about the evils of drugs.

  Stephen King
• You will find that the number of Israeli casualties among civilians exceeds the number of Palestinian casualties among (pause) innocent civilians who were noncombatants and not involved in any way in terrorism, and were killed by the Israelis, as distinguished from being killed by Palestinian (pause) terrorists as collaborators! That is simply a fact-I know of no source that disputes that!

  Alan Dershowitz

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