"The OCO budget includes $5.3 billion for continued operations against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)." 

"War" also includes all those air strikes from aircraft carriers, from Italy and from Turkey.  They are called 'tactical' air strikes, by the way.  

They even include the bombers that went all the way from Missouri and back to bomb those in Syria/Iraq.  

Those Special Forces soldiers 'advising' the Iraqis and the Kurds in Syria and Iraq will be interested to learn that they were not in a 'war' zone!  How about the ones using laser designators to guide in the bombs?  

Do they all have to give back their "hazardous duty pay"?  

There is your phony semantic argument and then there are the troops on the ground and those in the US Navy and Air Force dropping bombs.  And dodging Russian jets at the same time.  

Just another elderly Armchair Warrior.