It is common practice among military forces to enforce strict rules on a search and destroy mission.

But if the violence continues, the military should carry out "search and destroy" missions against the insurgents, he said.

He was one of five from his infantry unit in Vietnam selected for search and destroy missions.

"I'm not changing my position on abortion," said the man who once called amniocentesis a "search and destroy mission."

The core insight is that you can't win a war like this by going off on search and destroy missions trying to kill insurgents.

But the officials say they have never before undertaken such an ambitious "search and destroy" mission for unconventional weapons.

It is a "search and destroy mission" on the disease, not on a category of citizens.

For some it became not a search for truth, but a search and destroy mission.

In three days of intermittent fighting, the company conducted a number of search and destroy missions.

Later in the day they would be sent on search and destroy missions, looking primarily for artillery and trains.