Counterattack
tactic employed in response to an attack
A counterattack is a tactic used in response to an attack. The modern term became popular in "war games". The purpose is to neutralize or stop the advantage gained by an enemy during an attack.[1] At the same time it is used to regain lost ground or destroy the attacking enemy.[1] A counterattack depends on surprise, speed, and doing what the enemy does not expect. To be most effective it needs to be launched before an enemy has time to get organized and has not yet strengthened his new position.[2] The Chinese general and strategist Sun Tzu (544 BC – 496 BC) is the earliest writer who mentioned the advantages of a bold counterattack.[3]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 U.S. Marine Corps, Marine Corps Operations (New York: Cosimo, 2007), p. 8-14
- ↑ Martin Samuels, Command Or Control?: Command, Training and Tactics in the British and German Armies, 1888–1918 (London; Portland, OR: Frank Cass Publishers, 2003), p. 219
- ↑ Sun Tzu; Lionel Giles, Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text (Boston: Tuttle Publishing, 2012), p. 21
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