Search Result for "search and destroy mission":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. an operation developed for United States troops in Vietnam; troops would move through a designated area destroying troops as they found them; 



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

search and destroy mission
    n 1: an operation developed for United States troops in Vietnam;
         troops would move through a designated area destroying
         troops as they found them