抓获主要头目以控制对方的特别行动decapitation strike

• 战争期间两次失利的“对萨达姆斩首行动”也成为特种兵们败走麦城的灰色记录。

  The two defeats during the decapitation strikes against Saddam Hussein in the war blighted the record of commandos.

• 从二战到伊拉克战争中的“斩首行动”，通过大规模轰炸震慑敌方心理一直是美军的重要战术。

  Decapitation strikes through large-scale bombings to shock and awe the enemy psychologically have been an important tactic of the US military from the Second World War to the Iraq War.