What is "counteroffensive"

Usage examples of "counteroffensive".

While Luis lay in a hospital cut open and closed again, a chunk of him in a bucket and tossed away the world saw Stalingrad and the Soviet counteroffensive that shoved the German army all the way west beyond Kursk.

That month, the Iranians launched the first of a series of counteroffensives that mauled the Iraqi Army and, by the end of May 1982, had expelled Iraqi troops from Iran altogether.

In late May 1982, Iran completed the series of counteroffensives that swept Iraqi forces out of the territory they had gained in their initial invasion.

Iraqi Counteroffensives If the United States were to launch a major military operation with the expressed purpose of toppling him, Saddam would fight back with everything he has.

Back in Kurdistan, the KDP pressed its advantage, taking many PUK towns, only to be stopped at as-Sulaymaniyyah by strong defenses and then evicted from its territory altogether in a counteroffensive that October after the PUK had regrouped and rearmed with weapons from Iran.

Thousands crowded East Avenue and the shores of the river, determined that the headquarters which was directing the counteroffensive against the Valerians would not again come under assault by an enemy cell.

Another messenger from OHL, Major Dommes, arrived—this was on August 17—with news that made a counteroffensive appear more desir­able than ever.

But of course, said Major Dommes, he was obliged by Moltke’s instructions to warn of all the haz­ards of a counteroffensive of which the chief and overwhelming one was that it would be a frontal attack—that anathema of German military doc­trine—with envelopment impossible because of the mountains and the French fortresses.

But the very competitiveness of the New England colonies made effective unified action against the Indians almost impossible, and it wasn't until the spring of 1637 that the disorganized colonial forces were able to enlist the aid of the Narragansetts, Eastern Niantics, and Mohegans--all rivals of the Pequots--in order to mount a counteroffensive.

Then, on December 16, 1944, General Gerd von Rundstedt (1875-1953) led a desperate counteroffensive, driving a wedge into Allied lines through the Ardennes on the Franco-Belgian frontier.