reprisal policy

Israel can postpone the reprisal policy if it suits temporary Israeli and American needs.

Linton disapproved of the Israeli reprisal policy against civilians in neighboring Arab countries.

The German reprisal policy was deliberately exploited by Soviet partisans, who would place killed Germans near neutral villages in order to trigger a reaction.

Never Acknowledged Killings Mr. Herzstein said that it was extraordinary for a junior officer to criticize Hitler's reprisal policy.

The Government of Israel tends to assign the responsibility for hostile acts committed by foreign-based groups of Palestine guerillas to each group's host country, and to determine its reprisal policies accordingly.

As foreign minister from 1948 and also prime minister in 1954 and 1955, Sharett tried to curb the brutal reprisals policy that Ben-Gurion and the army pursued against Palestinian infiltrators (some of them hostile marauders, many unarmed refugees).

Beyond that, a reprisal policy - to the extent that it demonstrates U.S. willingness to employ this new norm in counter-insurgency - will set a higher price for the future upon all adventures of guerrilla warfare, and it should therefore somewhat increase our ability to deter such adventures."