It is far better to find ways to collaborate than to waste time in search and destroy.

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To help search out and destroy China's growing fleet of submarines, the United States has turned to the P-8A Poseidon, a modified Boeing 737-800 able to conduct area-wide anti-submarine warfare.

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We did something similar in Vietnam in the 1960s, opting to conduct massive search-and-destroy operations.

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Mr Obama talks about sanctioning a search-and-destroy mission in Pakistan without the permission of that country's government.

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Even before it disposed of bin Laden, America had lost its appetite for venturing abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

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The military conducted search-and-destroy operations in Shangla district, where they targeted terrorist hideouts and reported the arrest of one militant leader and the death of another.

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In the wake of a surprise attack by Filipino revolutionaries on American troops in the town of Balangiga, which had killed forty-eight of seventy-four members of an American Army company, Waller and his forces were deployed on a search-and-destroy mission across the island.

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U.N. inspectors were asked to search for, report and destroy real weapons.

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