Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun search_and_destroy_mission

1 sense of search and destroy mission

Sense 1
search and destroy mission -- (an operation developed for United States troops in Vietnam; troops would move through a designated area destroying troops as they found them)
       => mission, military mission -- (an operation that is assigned by a higher headquarters; "the planes were on a bombing mission")