A surprise attack from the Americans would destroy much of the Soviet ICBM fleet, allowing SDI to defeat a “ ragged ” Soviet retaliatory response.

G. Maximoff ) In response to the anarchists ' resistance, the Cheka orchestrated a massive retaliatory campaign of repression, executions, and arrests against all opponents of the Bolshevik government, in what came to be known as " Red Terror ".

Proponents of Ballistic Missile Defense ( BMD ) argue that MAD is exceptionally dangerous in that it essentially offers a single course of action in the event of nuclear attack: full retaliatory response.

The AK also conducted retaliatory operations to assassinate prominent Nazi collaborators and Gestapo officials in response to Nazi terror tactics imposed on the civilian population of Poland ( notable individuals assassinated by AK include Igo Sym and Franz Kutschera ).

The Baedeker Blitz or Baedeker raids were a series of Vergeltungsangriffe (" retaliatory raids ") by the German air force on English cities in response to the bombing of the erstwhile Hanseatic League city of Lübeck during the night from 28 to 29 March 1942 during World War II.

Morris contends that the Arab infiltration into Israel and the Israeli retaliatory response to it set patterns of behavior that were to characterize the Arab-Israeli conflict for decades to come.

In response, Clark launched a retaliatory raid across the Ohio River in November 1782.

In response to the actions at Mers-el-Kébir and Dakar, the French Air Force launched retaliatory bombing raids on British targets in Gibraltar, including a half-hearted attack on 14 July when many bombs landed in the sea and heavier raids on the 24 and 25 September.

The first was part of a UK-only retaliatory response to a nuclear attack, whether a full strategic strike, or a limited tactical strike.

Examples of this savagery include the retaliatory slaughter of human slaves ( this was shown after the victory of the Black Watch ), the nuclear destruction of San Diego ( also in response to the Black Watch's assassination of the Earth Commander of the Horde Forces ), and the decapitation of children ( especially by literally ripping their heads off ) in order to establish dominance over newly captured human slaves ( one particularly brutal terror-tactic favored by the Horde early in the war was to capture large numbers of humans in order to take them just outside the Earth's atmosphere and then eject them from the ships, allowing them to burn up in re-entry so watchers on the ground could see the streaks representing their burning forms.

Unlike " cooperative " or " retaliatory " behavior in repeated interactions, reciprocity is an in-kind response to beneficial or harmful acts with no material gains expected by the actor.

In response to the aggressive politics of the Polish ruler, the Emperor made a retaliatory expedition against Poland with the support of Bohemian warriors ( Polish-German War ).

He finally started the Atomic Wars in 2070 in response to international opposition, having convinced the population ( and himself ) that America's nuclear screens could keep out retaliatory strikes.

Seeing his hasty response will result in further retaliatory strikes, the President falls into a stupor.

These are followed up by retaliatory ethnic attacks on Cronulla.

When a union of the evangelicals in upper and lower Germany was contemplated as a means of improved defense against the retaliatory measures of the Roman Catholic Church, George had a meeting with Elector John of Saxony at Schleitz in 1529, where they agreed on certain articles of faith and confession to be drawn up by Luther ; the commission was executed in the seventeen articles of Schwabach on the basis of the fifteen theses of the Marburg Colloquy.

According to a survey released by the " Beirut Center for Research and Information " on July 26 during the 2006 Lebanon War, 87 percent of Lebanese support Hezbollah's " retaliatory attacks on northern Israel ", a rise of 29 percentage points from a similar poll conducted in February.

They accuse of moral equivalence those who describe acts of Palestinian terrorism, such as suicide bombing against civilians, on one hand, and the retaliatory acts of the Israeli Defense Forces, on the other, as equally reprehensible.

The use of defensive or retaliatory force, on the other hand, is appropriate.

At 8: 30 pm local time on 5 November Cambodia announced that it was withdrawing their ambassador from Thailand as a retaliatory measure.

Powell went on to say that if the Soviet invasion had already begun and Britain resorted to a retaliatory strike the results would be the same, " We should be condemning, not merely to death, but as near as may be the non-existence of our population ".

Range and safety considerations made this a good area from which to launch a retaliatory nuclear strike on Moscow.

Within thirty minutes of the 4 August incident, President Johnson had decided on retaliatory attacks.

Early on the 5 August Johnson publicly ordered retaliatory measures stating, " The determination of all Americans to carry out our full commitment to the people and to the government of South Vietnam will be redoubled by this outrage.

President Johnson, who was up for election that year, ordered retaliatory air strikes and went on national television on August 4.

After a Byzantine retaliatory attack on Kerkyra, John exiled the Venetian merchants from Constantinople.

The Chief of Staff of the Arab Legion in Amman flew to Jerusalem to ask that no retaliatory actions take place that might compromise Jordanian investigations underway on their side of the border.

The US did not meet the deadline to implement this decision, and on 30 August 2002, the WTO approved the European Union request for over USD 4 billion in retaliatory tariffs.

President Johnson ordered retaliatory air strikes on North Vietnamese naval bases and Congress approved almost unanimously the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing the president " to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the U. S. and to prevent further aggression.

Many retaliatory attacks on Catholics were claimed using the covername " Protestant Action Force " ( PAF ).

During the night of 31 August 1955, three Israeli paratroop companies made a retaliatory raid ( Mivtza Elkayam ) on the British-built Tegart fort in Khan Yunis from where attacks had been carried out against Israelis.

During 1864, he led the storied Woolsey Expeditions to the east in retaliatory raids on Apache and in search of gold ; all failed to find a new Eldorado.

At dawn on May 19, 1676, Captain William Turner led an army of settlers in a surprise retaliatory attack on Peskeompskut, in present-day Montague, then a traditional native gathering place.

* 1940 4 July – French bombers, based in French Morocco, carried out a retaliatory air raid over Gibraltar as a reprisal for the destruction of the French fleet at Mers-el-Kebir, Algeria, by the Force H ( about 1, 300 French sailors were killed and about 350 were wounded in the action against the French fleet ).

In July 1746 an Iroquois and intercolonial force assembled in northern New York for a retaliatory attack against Canada.

In July 1385, under Carrick's lieutenancy, a Scottish army that included a French force commanded by Admiral Jean de Vienne penetrated into the north of England without any serious gains but provoked a damaging retaliatory attack by Richard II.

Despite retaliatory action from the treaty powers, another attack occurred in July, 1864, when the rebel forces fired upon the U. S. steamer Monitor after she entered a harbor for coal and water.

A Confederate air raid in 1942 killed President Al Smith ; a retaliatory raid heavily damaged the Gray House, although President Featherston had moved to a heavily fortified underground bunker beneath Shockoe Hill.

In August 1964, as a result of the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, in which U. S. naval vessels claimed to have been attacked by North Vietnamese patrol boats, President Johnson ordered retaliatory air strikes ( Operation Pierce Arrow ) launched against the north.

Within hours, President Johnson ordered the launching of retaliatory air strikes ( Operation Pierce Arrow ) on the bases of the North Vietnamese torpedo boats and announced, in a television address to the American public that same evening, that U. S. naval forces had been attacked.

Churchill consequently ordered a retaliatory raid on the German capital of Berlin.

During the Mayaguez incident, Ford ordered several retaliatory strikes against the Cambodians.

Already angered by the desecration of his recently dead aunts grave Te Maiharanui ( Tama-i-hara-nui ) ordered a retaliatory attack the following day, killing the leading Ngāti Toa chiefs, including Te Pēhi Kupe.