counteroperation

English

Etymology

counter- +‎ operation

Noun

counteroperation (plural counteroperations)

1. A military operation in response to another operation.
   • 2008 April 4, Michael Moss, “Rising Leader for Next Phase of Al Qaeda’s War”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     In recent months, those tactics have come to include defensive maneuvers aimed at defusing the media counteroperations of the United States and its allies.