It often refers to meeting in a conventional combat but can have reference to other types of meetings too.

This is an era of conventional combat against lesser military powers, of counterinsurgency operations and global military campaigns against terrorism.

The force of my strike and the surprise of my attack gave me an advantage I lacked in conventional combat.

It is neither a major conventional combat nor a mere peacekeeping operation.

He shifted our focus from conventional combat toward winning over the people.

As such, there is no chance of our emerging victorious against her in conventional combat.

Rebel officers say the numerically superior Government forces keep trying to lure the more lightly armed guerrillas into conventional combat, where they are at a disadvantage.

The Black Tigers operate in three distinct ways: conventional combat on land and at sea, guerrilla attacks, and assassinations or bombings.

I'm a soldier, trained in conventional naval combat.

Under the mandate authorized by the Security Council for Sierra Leone, the peacekeepers may defend themselves but are not equipped for conventional combat.