reconnaissance in force

1. 1.

   an offensive operation designed to discover or test the enemy's strength (or to obtain other information)

   Broaderreconnaissance

Questions about reconnaissance in force

What does reconnaissance in force mean?

reconnaissance in force means "an offensive operation designed to discover or test the enemy's strength (or to obtain other information)".

Is reconnaissance in force a common word?

reconnaissance in force is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.