پاتک

Also known as counter-attack, counter attack

thumb|Closing the Falaise pocket|Falaise-Argentan Pocket and the Mortain counterattack 6–17 August 1944 thumb|Map of the Battle of Cambrai (1917)|Battle of Cambrai – German counter-offensive A counterattack is a tactic employed in response to an attack, with the term originating in "war games". The general objective is to negate or thwart the advantage gained by the enemy during attack, while the specific objectives typically seek to regain lost ground or destroy the attacking enemy (this may take the form of an opposing sports team or military units).