Copp offers agreement on this assessment, writing: "Before this withdrawal [of the 21st Panzer Division] became evident, Dempsey had concluded that more armoured counterattacks could be expected.
Counterattacks could be justified in the same way that an employer has the right to monitor activities on an employee's work computer.
Many rebels were convinced there could be a counterattack.
"There have been all kinds of mysterious things happening in Iran, and it could be an Iranian counterattack," said Mike Herzog, a retired Israeli general and former top aide to Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak.
Then, anticommunism and rightist independence leaders were the best shield or guardian that could be used for counterattacking their enemies.
If they could be held, a German counterattack on the eastern flank of the allied forces landing at Sword beach could be prevented.
One thinks of the young Franz Beckenbauer who, as a counterattacking libero, showed again and again how a defender could be the most creative player in the team.
The validity of the Fas FasL counterattack theory has been studied in several malignancies, and FasL expression could be a negative prognostic factor, such as in colorectal cancer (Mann et al, 1999; Okada et al, 2000).
Interestingly, the gB-NT glycans that blocked antibody binding could be targeted for neutralization instead by a lectin, suggesting a means of therapeutic counterattack.
