Explore: Counterforce Operations

styling itself as the "Counterforce" in resistance to the emerging post-war military-industrial complex. Part Four: The Counterforce: Elements in this section

"The Role and Effect of Special Operations Forces in Theater Ballistic Missile Counterforce Operations during Operation Desert Storm". Archived from the

strikes; these targets consisted primarily of industrial sites but included counterforce targets. These plans, primarily by the Air Force, tended to be based

regarding the potential uses of and responses to nuclear weapons. A counterforce strike consists of an attack on enemy nuclear weapons meant to destroy

nuclear retaliation. It is essentially a subset of a counterforce strike but whereas a counterforce strike seeks to destroy weapons directly, a decapitation

the Minuteman program, which, by 1961, was firmly evolving towards a counterforce capability. Minuteman's final tests coincided with the start of John

Lucio Fulci's 1983 fantasy film Conquest and the all-star action film Counterforce in 1988. In 1996, Rivero acted in the film Werewolf with Richard Lynch

tactical attacks and would probably strike countervalue rather than counterforce targets. The combination of China's few nuclear weapons and technological

usually implemented through surging at the enemy after their attack. Counterforce – A strategy used in nuclear warfare of targeting military infrastructure

destruction Bernard Brodie Counterforce, Countervalue Decapitation strike Deterrence theory Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations Dr. Strangelove (1964),