0 a type of military attack that is made in an exact way on a particular place:
A surgical strike was carried out on the enemy's military headquarters.
The cut and thrust, the surgical strike of some pure figure on the unmeaning fabric of commercial development cannot fail to inspire, to give the lead, to be an intervention.
I can easily imagine what disasters could result from a so-called ‘surgical strike’ of this kind today.
The expression "a surgical strike" contains its own inherent contradiction.
So a surgical strike in such circumstances is a figment of the imagination of a non-military person.
The idea of a surgical strike is a fantasy.
I do not trust those who say that a quick surgical strike by air will be effective.
It will not be the quick surgical strike that people are talking about.
What we have been talking about is not a surgical strike at all; if anything, it is a massive retaliation.
