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Definition of Airstrike
1. Noun. A particular military strategy that utilizes air-based munitions to attack a target. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Airstrike
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Airstrike
Literary usage of Airstrike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nuclear Coexistence: Rethinking U. S. Policy to Promote Stability in an Era by William C. Martel, William T. Pendley (1998)
"... about using India as a refueling stop enroute to a 1982 Osirak-type airstrike
against Pakistan's Kahuta facility.120 The Indian Government refused. ..."
2. Genocide in Iraq: the anfal campaign against the Kurds by George Black (1993)
"It is a brief report from Amn Erbil, dated June 11,1987, on a recent airstrike
on five villages in the ..."
3. Radical Responses to Radical Regimes: Evaluating Preemptive Counter by Barry R. Schneider (1996)
"... the airstrike might trigger a Soviet nuclear counterattack by perhaps 10% of
Cuban-based MRBMs and by the Strategic Rocket Forces based in the USSR, ..."
4. Counter-Terrorism and the Use of Force in International Law by Michael N. Schmitt (2002)
"See also Stuart G. Baker, Comparing the 1993 US airstrike on Iraq to the 1986
Bombing of Libya: The New Interpretation of Article 51, 24 GEORGIA JOURNAL OF ..."
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