countercity
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countercity (not comparable)
- (military) Targeting a city.
- 1982, Military Chaplains' Review, volumes 132-135:
- A countercity strike would be a direct and intentional attack against noncombatants, representing a violation of noncombatant immunity on a mass scale—this besides the disproportionality of the destruction such a countercity strike would entail.