Crossword clues for counterattack
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of counter-attack from=US English) vb. (alternative spelling of counter-attack from=US English)
WordNet
n. an attack by a defending force against an attacking enemy force in order to regain lost ground or cut off enemy advance units etc. [syn: countermove]
(chess) an attack that is intended to counter the opponent's advantage in another part of the board [syn: counterplay]
v. make a counterattack [syn: counterstrike]
Wikipedia
A counterattack is a tactic employed in response to an attack, with the term originating in " war games". The general objective is to negate or thwart the advantage gained by the enemy during attack, while the specific objectives typically seek to regain lost ground or destroy the attacking enemy (this may take the form of an opposing sports team or military units).
A saying, attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte illustrate the tactical importance of the counterattack : "the greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory". In the same spirit, in his Battle Studies, Ardant du Pic noticed that "he, general or mere captain, who employs every one in the storming of a position can be sure of seeing it retaken by an organised counter-attack of four men and a corporal".
A counterattack is a military tactic. The word may also refer to:
- Counter-Attack, a 1918 poem by Siegfried Sassoon
- Counter-Attack, a film set in World War II starring Paul Muni
- 1941: Counter Attack, a video arcade game
- Counterattack, a right-wing journal that published Red Channels in 1950
Usage examples of "counterattack".
With the Americans falling back on Bataan, and the British retreating to Fortress Singapore, Pug could see little hope anywhere, except in the Russian counterattacks.
The Chaga responded to stimuli and adapted to counterattacks on itself.
As it happened, the counterattack had interrupted a Cheeta Ching newscast-thereby incurring the bitter enmity of the Master of Sinanju.
This is especially true with regard to terrorism, which would be the hardest Iraqi method of counterattack to handle.
The Regulus, Iain, already in cold fury against the Balderites because of the losses they had cost him in his mainland holdings, especially in the Inverness country, called upon his vassals at Lewis, Skye, and Uist for their famous, infamous, dreaded Scots-Dane axementhose professional man-killers known in Ireland as galloglaichesand remorselessly held his own at Islay against the Kennedys and the rest while he awaited the arrival of enough force to counterattack.
Cheers rose, pikes followed, and the counterattack charged down the hill.
Tear gas canisters and smoke grenades and shells began raining down all around the area, the choking and blinding fumes masking the forward movement of the Rebels as they counterattacked the street punks.
Anytime that all an Iraqi unit had to do was dig in and fight back, without doing any maneuvering or counterattacking, it could put up a hell of a fight.
Likewise, because our allies would be comfortable that Saddam would be gone, and quickly, we should be able to convince all of them to take extraordinary security measures to defeat other Iraqi counterattacks in the expectation that those measures would not have to remain in place for very long.
The virus, he thought, must have been armed with a countervirus of its own, lying latent, waiting to ambush any counterattack.
Moreover, the slower the advance, the more time the Iraqis will have to shift their forces, build new defenses, and devise traps and counterattacks for our troops.
There are two examples from the Gulf War and one from Kosovo of enemy counterattacks hit by U.
These examples suggest that we should be wary of assuming that air power can always break counterattacks by itself.
They use grassers to attack it, and akks to defend themselves from its counterattacks.
He was injured mortally in the great Tsurani offensive, leading a counterattack to rescue surrounded soldiers, mainly Hadati hillmen, auxiliaries to the garrison of Yabon.