MIDEAST -- There were scattered military incursions and arrests, and Gaza remained braced for a retaliatory operation for a pool-hall bombing that killed 15 Israelis.
"It is true that there was great fear among the residents of the city of Raqqa about a retaliatory operation similar to the revenge for the burning of the Jordanian pilot, but the response was appropriate to target ISIS positions only".
It vowed "a just retaliatory strike operation, not only against all the interceptor means involved, but against the strongholds" of the United States, South Korea and Japan.
It led to the dismissal of the country's intelligence chief and a retaliatory military operation that included the first helicopter airstrikes in Sinai since Israel ended its occupation in 1982.
In October one such operation, a retaliatory attack against the village of Qibyā (in the West Bank), left 69 civilians dead, many of them women and children.
On the right flank of the 2nd Canadian Division, the 12th Canadian Infantry Brigade of the 4th Canadian Division executed a diversionary operation which proved successful in drawing German retaliatory fire away from the main operation.
In November, 1966, after three Israeli paratroopers were killed by a land mine planted near the Negev town of Arad, Eshkol ordered Operation Shredder, a retaliatory strike on a rural area in western Jordan.
In recent weeks the army has launched what it described as retaliatory air strikes and limited ground operations in North Waziristan, a tribal "agency" bordering Afghanistan that serves as an important sanctuary for the TTP.
More broadly, both Harry Truman and Eisenhower strove to contain Communism without committing troops to combat, relying instead on covert operations, enhancing America's nuclear retaliatory threat and strengthening Western economies.
