You can be involved in military operations without being involved in actual combat. Even during WWII that described about 95% of the life of an infantryman (to

You can be involved in military operations without being involved in actual combat. Even during WWII that described about 95% of the life of an infantryman (to say nothing of those who never went to the front lines). And either way once you've put yourself in a military status in conflict with another power you've lost the right to have to agree about where the next battle starts; either party gets to decide until a later peace agreement/cease-fire/etc. is reached.