The evacuation of civilians remains out of the question while the fighting continues.
The first fatalities of the war were civilians.
We will be flying 100 badly wounded civilians out of the battle zone tonight.
How many civilians died in the Vietnam War?
Given the nascent army's triumph over local bosses, a new centralised power emerged, not civilians, but the armed forces themselves (39).
After handing over power to elected civilians in 1969, the military struck again in 1972.
Persuading local inhabitants to give support voluntarily means that guerrillas must either adapt their message to local beliefs, or educate civilians to change their preferences.
