I would use the term colloquially. I appreciate—and I'm sure the committee would recognize this—that within the legal definition, there is no “for example”. There is no defined service in Veterans Affairs legislation, and certainly not in the Veterans Well-being Act, that enables me to declare it a war as such. However, at the same time, it was an armed conflict in which people put their lives at risk.
Colloquially and in my view, it meets a war.