Non-nuclear Use
Decapitation strikes may also apply to conventional warfare methods, such as car bombings.
- In 1944, German resistance workers, including Nazi Party insider Klaus von Stauffenberg, planned an assassination of Adolf Hitler and his inner circle, which ultimately failed.
- In July 2012, a bombing killed three of Syrian President Bashir al-Assad's senior defence leaders.
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