Difference between Civilians and Noncombatant

CIVILIANS vs NONCOMBATANT: NOUN

A civilian in time of conflict
A non-fighting member of the armed forces
A person not attached to a military unit, or not participating in the military activities of a war; a civilian.
Any person connected with an army, or within the lines of an army, who does not make it his business to fight, as any one of the medical officers and their assistants, chaplains, and others; also, any of the citizens of a place occupied by an army; also, any one holding a similar position with respect to the navy.
A civilian in time of war.
One who is connected with a military or naval force in some other capacity than that of a fighter, as surgeons and their assistants, chaplains, members of the commissariat department, etc.
A civilian in wartime, especially one in a war zone.
A member of the armed forces, such as a chaplain or surgeon, whose duties lie outside combat.
A member of the armed forces who does not participate in combat (e.g. a chaplain or surgeon)

Used of civilians in time of war
Member of armed forces whose duties do not include fighting as e.g. a chaplain or surgeon

Civic, Memorials, Civ, Commoners, Servants, Populations, Population, Civvies, Residents, Nationals, Citizens, Persons, People, Civil, Noncombatant

Unmilitary, Innocent, Soldierly, Defenseless, Aircrew, Conscript, Iraqi, Nonmilitary, Humanitarian, Peacekeeping, Combatant, Non combatant, Noncombat, Military, Civilian

Soldiers, Calendar, Civil law, Burgers, Civic, Civ, Commoners, Population, Civvies, Residents, Nationals, Citizens, People, Civil, Noncombatant

Unmilitary, Innocent, Soldierly, Defenseless, Aircrew, Conscript, Iraqi, Nonmilitary, Humanitarian, Peacekeeping, Combatant, Non combatant, Noncombat, Military, Civilian

They have orders to kill all remaining civilians.
In the libertarian ideal, the state has no more firepower to control civilians than the civilians have to police themselves, or to fight back.
As a result, the Revolutionary War included little direct attacks on civilians, but that does not mean that civilians did not suffer.
This course is designed for Regular Army, Army Reserve, and National Guard Soldiers; sailors; marines; airmen; civilians; and contract civilians.
Just as terrorism targets innocent civilians, so too are innocent civilians becoming casualties in the international campaign against terrorism.
Some justified Soviet brutality towards German civilians based on previous brutality of German troops toward Russian civilians.
ICC Statute against combatants while believing they are civilians could be treated as attempts to commit crimes against humanity against civilians.
Because the weapon cannot distinguish between military targets and civilians, it invariably kills and wounds civilians when used in or near populated areas.
International law countenanced, for example, the starvation of civilians or reprisals against civilians.
Civilians Deploying civilians There are occasions when civilians deploy on operations with the ADF.

One either is a combatant or a noncombatant.
Rogge, unwilling to cause noncombatant casualties, declined to attack.
Noncombatant farm work had not support military duty must be accrued for voluntary enlistment.
Like military necessity, this principle presupposes the distinction between combatant and noncombatant objects.
President Wilson issued an executive order permitting objectors to elect noncombatant service.
Did you see a separate count of civilian or noncombatant casualties?
So Islam traditionally did not uphold a principle of noncombatant immunity.
Thus, it symbolizes administrative emblem, implying neutral and noncombatant status.
Dille, he said, believed the man was a noncombatant.
Conscientious objector available for noncombatant military service only.