Usage examples (30)

• The leap in American counterforce capabilities since the end of the Cold War is staggering.)
• I wholly share his interest in getting a more realistic assessment of the so-called counterforce first strike.
• The Russians, then, had an advantage in a potential "counterforce" attack-the sort aimed at weapons rather than people.
• Instead, "counterforce" implied the political and economic defense of Western Europe against the disruptive effect of the war on European society.