"With these strikes, we must monitor and lie in wait and seize any opportunity to land a large strike on it, even if it takes years of patience for this," he said, citing April's attack at the Boston Marathon.
The idea, officials say, would be to give the president a non-nuclear option for, say, a large strike on the leadership of Al Qaeda in the mountains of Pakistan, or a pre-emptive attack on an impending missile launch from North Korea.
He also urged that flying hours be cut back so as to allow for a large strike on the convoy, and instructed him to move forward as many aircraft as possible so that they could be close to the nearby captured airfields around Dobodura, where they would not be subject to the vagaries of weather over the Owen Stanley Range.
The largest strikes on Friday seemed to be outside of the United States.
Sebastian Dadler (1586 1657) was employed by the courts of Saxony, Sweden, Poland, and the Holy Roman Empire to produce large struck medals on the political events of the time.
Hough said the myth can gain more attention when a large earthquake strikes on a full moon or when scientific studies show a weak influence on earthquake rates by tidal or other forces.
The fact remains, though, that large-scale strikes on civilian targets outside the Middle East are a rarity.
Last month, Israel downed a drone in its airspace that it claimed was Iranian, triggering a clash in which an Israeli jet was struck by Syrian anti-aircraft fire and "large-scale" strikes on targets near Damascus.
This contrasts with a relatively free rein given to Chinese reporters in 2010 to report on a large strike over pay by workers at a factory owned by Honda in Foshan, another delta city.
Fears about attacks in the United States remain a chief concern of counterterrorism officials who said in interviews that Al Qaeda, although battered by recent arrests of senior operatives and disruptions of attempted plots, remained fixed on a large strike in the United States -- possibly using an aircraft.
