counterdeployment

noun

coun·​ter·​de·​ploy·​ment ˌkau̇n-tər-di-ˈplȯi-mənt 

variants or counter-deployment

plural counterdeployments or counter-deployments

: the act or an instance of deploying something or someone in response to a deployment by another group

Five days of Iraqi deployments and U.S. counterdeployments around Kuwait's northern border …

—The New York Times

… after so much anxious manoeuvring, threat and counter-threat, troop deployment and counter-deployment …

—David Fraser

It would suggest that the other side was about to launch the weapons, thus provoking rapid counter-deployment and, worse, pre-emptive firing.

—Josef Joffe

Word History

First Known Use

1969, in the meaning defined above