Related Clues:

• Tussled with
• In armed conflict
• Clashing
• Laced into
• Did battle with
• Battled
• Went after aggressively
• 'Bush ___' (Bob Woodward bestseller)
• Making more guns and less butter?
• In battle
• Violently engaged
• Fighting big-time
• Clashing big-time
• Like Russia and Japan, for most of 1904-'05
• Battling it out