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Definition of Search and destroy mission
1. Noun. An operation developed for United States troops in Vietnam; troops would move through a designated area destroying troops as they found them.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Search And Destroy Mission
Literary usage of Search and destroy mission
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Apollo's Warriors: United States Air Force Special Operations During the by Michael E. Haas (1998)
"... the unusual joined to support the first army division-sized looking Cessna
0-2, a twin-engined airplane with "search and destroy" mission of the war. ..."
2. From the Household to the Factory: Sex Discrimination in the Guatemalan by Judith Sunderland (2002)
"In Shanghai alone, 1300 government workers engaged in a search and destroy mission
that netted 45000 books and pictures, part of a one-week nationwide total ..."
3. Weapons Transfers and Violations of the Laws of War in Turkey by James Ron (1995)
"search and destroy mission through the area. At one point during the mission
F., passed through ..."
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