surgical strike

A surgical strike to show them we mean business.

My recommendation will be a surgical strike against those weapon sites.

It also comes at a time when the public seems unlikely to settle for the surgical strikes of the past.

So this would be like what the army guys call a surgical strike: invade, pull the job, clear out.

So it's a little early to be talking about "surgical strikes," assuming there is any such thing.

"But it is very difficult to do a 'surgical strike' here and just hit the Americans."

This usually requires what is often called a surgical strike.

For these men, this was not a clean war of smart bombs and surgical strikes.

Everyone knows what the only important surgical strike would be in this war.

Austin knew there was no such thing as a surgical strike.