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counterattack
(redirected from counteroffensive)

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Attacking an attacker. Even though a criminal hacker or other agent is attempting to penetrate a security perimeter or damage systems, the counterattack must not violate applicable laws.


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This is how we want to envision the men and women of United Flight 93--their terror distilling into resolution, then being catalyzed into a counteroffensive that defeated the beasts in human form who intended to turn their airliner into a weapon of mass destruction.
For these reasons, most of the major Field Artillery engagements in the Capital Military District during the Tet offensive and counteroffensive occurred in the outer edges of Saigon and in other areas of the zone.
Eventually, on August 10, 1938, following the decisive counteroffensive of the formations and units of the 1st Detached Red Banner Far Eastern Army headed by the Marshal of the Soviet Union V.
 
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