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His victory was not marked by a surrender but by a change of enemy tactics.
Learn tactics, techniques, and procedures during your upcoming leader recons.
Such drastic tactics may be warranted, according to Horne, because the current situation is putting drug agencies in a quandary.
These tactics have been a routine ingredient of every major Army war game for the past five years.
The injured Una is on the warpath and the lads charm tactics can't defuse her fury.
The manager does not take punishment well, and is waspish in his responses to journalists who question his tactics and second-season signings.
The country, of course, is accustomed to such tactics by parties in the opposition.
The clubs have a history of questionable medical tactics in dealing with each other.
The tactics and playing of the game are not unlike basketball or water polo.
In addition, racial profiling and other tactics scrutinize black people more than other groups.
The tone and tactics of globalisation critics may need some adaptation, but debating on who makes and manages global policies remains vital.
Young rams fertilize ewes using coursing tactics, whose success is independent of their dominance rank.
Women manifestly have the ability to detect rivals and to employ a variety of tactics to place themselves at an advantage over them.
Graffiti artists use the same tactics as billboard advertisers, but no one really connects the two.
Pearson's book reveals the unseemly tactics that accused women use to beat the rap.
They are using their reactionist tactics to try and scare people away from real issues.
Their ability to overcome these deficiencies was due to the aggressiveness of their unit tactics.
Disruption is inevitably compounded by having to rearrange the team to change positions and adjust tactics, rather than make a straight swap.
I then changed my tactics and decided that I was going to go for broke with a more flamboyant bet.
But that didn't worry Allardyce, who recalled situations early in the season when similar tactics brought similar results.
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After seeing this fish at close range I realise that it is bill-wrapped and tell the crew to use kid-glove tactics.
The Persian Gulf War presented army aviation with the opportunity to use airmobile tactics to the fullest.
Their greater experience up front and ability to change tactics got them out of jail and won them a cracking contest.
Short-wave radio allowed tactics such as submarine wolf packs, massive bombing raids, and co-ordinated blitzkrieg attacks.
A compulsive workaholic and an absentee publisher, he has tried a number of different tactics to revive the papers.
People bandy around the word tactics when in fact they are referring to all sorts of other aspects of the game.
In the worst possible outcome, the labyrinthine tactics, Byzantine politics and convoluted logic will delay action.
I don't want to rehearse my criticisms of his tactics or the failures of his deplorable regime during the Oslo negotiations and thereafter.
Williams was forced to use high-risk all-or-nothing tactics which backfired as Seles squared the match then secured victory.
They detail a number of tactics that the Justice Department believed were allowable.
These tactics protect the military's house of cards for a while but it collapses the moment the principal actor is removed.
By the time you're at election day it's really too late to start rejigging any tactics or resources anyway.
But if I see the same tactics that were employed when she was attorney general, you bet we'll push forward.
Strong tactics may deplete the support provider's emotional resources at a faster rate than they can be replenished.
The course provides instruction in long-range patrolling, amphibious operations, hydrographic surveys, and specialized ground combat tactics.
Even where firms are operating reputably, aggressive marketing tactics have become the norm.
The game was over after 25 moves but he tried some tactics before resigning in 34 moves.
It is sad that such eminent judges who found themselves in some embarrassing situation had to resort to such tactics.
Small organizations can pool resources, but they may then find problems in agreeing on priorities and tactics.
The British public does not, on the whole, support the tactics of a small band of animal rights extremists.
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He was permitted to ignore a question regarding a proposed remedy for his company's retaliatory tactics.
As it stands such tactics may fall foul of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, hence Berman's proposal for legislative changes.
Workers in East Asia thus need to explore and combine a variety of tactics to defend their legitimate interests.
The Assyrians left one of the earliest records of weaponry, tactics, and battlefield engagements.
One sees here yet another variant of the revisionist tactics of pitting the old against the new.
Klein will be in Brazil this week to join a debate on future tactics that is gradually reviving in websites across the world.
Driven by a death wish and using the most revolting tactics, these heartless nihilists demand martyrdom.
Despite the prime minister's words, there are no signs that the British government plans to change its aggressive antiterror tactics.
As a military reformer, Moore successfully developed light infantry tactics and training methods.
Most drivers maximize speed through track tactics, memorizing apexes, shifts and brake points.
The family seem to have limitless energy for campaigning, and are prepared to use shock tactics to get their message across.
Toward the end of the war, units were changing their offensive tactics from massed lines to small groups.
It's made me laugh from your dry humor and weep for the victims of corporate crime tactics.
Other tactics involve deep leveraging, programme trading, swaps, arbitrage and derivatives that retail investors find difficult to master.
When a couple of rookie cops fail their first day of simulated assault tactics, they are instantly placed on the biggest case of their careers.
Few hotly contested sporting finals would see a manager argue the toss with a spectator questioning his tactics.
The Chinese had brought new tactics to the battlefield for directing mass peasant armies armed with crossbows.
She rows with her auld man over his tactics and also has a go at poor Brendan whom she pours a drink over.
Usually, we give the recruits a week and a half before we start the rough stuff, but given the situation, we're resorting to shock tactics.
Disappointed with the dilatory tactics of the cocoa firms, he even suggested sending a man-of-war to arrest a slave ship.
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Even military officers didn't care much for tactics or logistics, instead avoiding any chance of seeing combat.
The booming voice and scare tactics turn out to be a ruse, a way of hiding a small and powerless man, who is no wizard at all.
It does not prohibit the use of surprise, ruses, or stealthy tactics to kill enemy personnel.
These evasive tactics have saved many a relationship for the last many years, but now things have gone out of hand if you ask me.
He has read the runes of the times better than many of his critics, even if there can be arguments about his tactics and strategy.
Starting six weeks before the election, you head toward November with the candidates, running mates, platform and tactics of your choosing.
He could easily outmaneuver the Russians and use tactics to cross the T twice, inflicting maximum damage on the slower Russian fleet.
Clint and his team were most tactful in giving advice on tactics and fish handling.
He grew to be a fine lad and his education consisted of the use of weapons and military tactics.
It's science fiction but it gives a good inside on war strategies and tactics.
British tactics as well as strategy tended to err on the side of caution, American on the side of rashness.
It is all too easy to focus in the minute details of operational tactics and to miss the broad sweep of strategy.
Each of those battles offers a contrasting type of military tactics, terrain and drama.
The effect was that they did not have a very good grasp of strategy and tactics.
In both cases we start with solidarity, and participate in debates about strategy and tactics.
If you want to beat your enemy, you must know your enemy and study the tactics of your enemy.
The Indian army used classic counterinsurgency tactics, taught to them by the British.
He later wrote books on military tactics, advocating a highly mechanised army.
The Assyrian king had total control over the targets, tactics and deployment of his army.
However, tactics from this war to 1914 had not changed to fit in with this new weapon.
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Our tactics and logistics may indeed be weak, but surely we must protect our officers and men?
After the war he defended what he did by writing the following article to explain his strategy and tactics.
Her part in the briefings related to tactics, posting of officers and health and safety.
The American tactics relied on the peculiar characteristics of carrier warfare.
Those pirates, armed with daggers and machetes, also used commando-style tactics in their attack, he said.
Journalists adopted tactics of underground publication, in the best tradition of East European samizdat.
These tactics work very well on the job, but their usage becomes automatic and unconscious, causing problems in private life.
Each side fielded armies that were very similar in tactics, organization, and equipment, and both used African and Gallic auxiliary troops.
It is all about tactics and you have to concentrate, but I used to be away with the fairies.
The criminals behind these attacks are constantly evolving their techniques and changing tactics to target a wider range of victims.
Their intimidation tactics too often succeed, and the rental board authorities only maintain their status quo.
These tactics not only violate democracy and majority rule, but arguably offend the Constitution as well.
There were a couple of butts, but none of the dirty tactics both pugilists have used in some past fights.
Many see strategies and tactics slowly replacing the pure skilled technicians of yesterday.
The gusty wind prevented the air tanker drops of retardant, and use of backfires that are key tactics of fire containment.
All of these tactics can work, just as a slap shot, a snap shot, a wrist shot or a backhander will work in the right situation.
The networks have focused on details of tactics, weapons and military manoeuvres.
These are tactics that serve admirably as a template for terrorizing entire nations.
Their punishing tactics were too much for Wigan whose schoolboy errors were embarrassing considering the magnitude of the occasion.
The usual evolutionist hand-waving and bait-and-switch tactics were employed in a grand piece of propaganda.
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The enthusiasts' tactics include presenting science as theatre, magic tricks and fantasy.
The liberation theologists have written extensively about the folly of the oppressed using the tactics of their oppressors.
They vary up the torture tactics via new school hardcore, the furious primal bombast of thrash metal and every barbed edge in-between.
Further automatization of the system of command and control of troops and materiel will also produce a great impact on tactics.
The home team had plenty of early possession, and adopted the obvious tactics of hitting the ball up close to ruck and maul via their big men.
Similarly, providers expressing concerns indicative of a maximalist logic of action also appeared to eschew strong boundary management tactics.
The strategy will apply different messaging and tactics that are meaningful to consumers as they enter different life stages.
Dolan said he was baffled by referee Mike Jones' failure to penalise Exeter for delaying tactics at restarts and throw-ins.
Analysts say the president's tactics of power consolidation and political thuggery have been successful in shutting out challengers.
Off-licences selling alcohol to underage drinkers could be targeted as tough tactics are adopted to stop teenage hoodlums terrorising a town.
The real tactics of sea battling is in forcing your enemy into a bad position and then damaging them while they cannot get a bead on your ship.
I want to follow up on that point by looking at the extraordinary timidness that has characterized recent liberal political tactics.
His tactics appear unconventional at first, but it soon becomes clear that there is method in his madness.
If they're seen as unfair, as below the belt, as smear tactics, they can backfire on the candidate in the long term.
The parties might cooperate on policy and parliamentary tactics, and there would almost certainly be a place in the shadow cabinet for Trimble.
We are left at the Checkpoint Charlie Museum, which illustrates the various escape tactics used by East Berliners.
Let us not fall for cheap tactics and propaganda that are designed to divide us.
Using brutal tactics Duvalier created a rural militia to intimidate the population.
We have regular meets, discuss tactics and are often to be found in training for the Big Event.
Then he employed his tactics in his mind's eye, imagining various scenarios which would call for certain actions.
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Google has garnered tremendous free publicity and mindshare as result of these tactics.
However it appears to work much better than any conventional tactics for thin-lipped grey mullet.
The flies' hit-and-run tactics also protect them from lethal exposure to cattle sprays or systemic insecticides.
Only a minority of organizing campaigns use such tactics effectively, she says.
The tactics worked a treat, as his mount stormed away in the closing stages.
Bottom club York stunned third-placed Sheffield with their tactics of tight defence and speedy breakouts working a treat.
If you missed the session about applying engineering tactics to biohacking, I'll fill in the gap.
The name Tony Soprano replaced Michael Corleone as shorthand for thug-like tactics.
Ross doesn't resort to the dumbing-down tactics favored by Hollywood in biopics.
This is just another misuse of power by an administration that continually guards its homeland security tactics.
Shoulder surfers use similar tactics to those used with ATMS when tourists make credit card calls on public phones.
Makoto has also shown a fiery competitive spirit in racing that does not rely on dangerous kamikaze tactics.
There would be an outcry and lawsuits if any American city tried such tactics against blacks or gays or members of other minority groups.
The group, which has already staged road blockades on major routes, has not ruled out deploying tactics such as chaining themselves to railings and lying on roads.
The tactics of the violent ruffians failed in this year's election.
Along with sans-culotte politics came revolutionary tactics.
Ultimately, however, Bryan's attempt to overcome sectionalism by restraining public recollection of the war was no match for the tactics of his opponent.
American women expressed their support and impatience when fighting puritanism and conservatism using Femen tactics.
Keenan surmises that law enforcement, including the FBI, may be applying the same tactics in this case.
Given the tightness of the election, it's hard for even the most attentive voters to cut through the cacophony of spin, campaign blather, and last-minute scare tactics.
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Drawing upon other-worldly fortitude and raw courage, Ali simply outlasted Foreman, with his rope-a-dope tactics, before knocking him out in the eighth round.
Psychics and astrologers were employed to attack the enemy and plan tactics based on the alignment of the stars.
Each day is meticulously and absurdly spent planning our tactics for the game and working out what would happen to the league table if we won and everybody above us lost.
If crows have become unwelcome guests, Martens recommends scare tactics, such as Mylar tape, pie tins, scary eye balloons, scarecrows, and auditory alarms.
Given white Louisianians' frequent use of beatings, whippings, and lynchings, it should not be surprising that African Americans also resorted to aggressive tactics.
They were quickly able to make sense of how to use aikido for handling rough shoving tactics like what is seen in wrestling, sumo and at the beginning of many street fights.
Consequently, there will now be a battle royal about the rights and wrongs of these particular tactics, and the bigger picture will inevitably be lost.
Australia earlier cancelled Blanc's visa over claims his tactics promote sexual assault.
The only way Republican leaders will change their tactics is if they lose a few elections in a row doing it.
The tactics almost certainly have saved untold thousands of innocents from grievous injury, even death.
Kind of an A to Z on riding skills and the tactics of competitive cycling.
When the police resorted to kettling tactics during last year's student protests, they didn't offer such facilities to those trapped inside the kettle.
By resolutely shunning money, his campaign forged alternative tactics, all of which were explained in detail on healey's blog.
The past year's sagging economy has caused many schools to retool their recruiting tactics, according to findings in a new national survey released last month.
They are also protesting the company's union busting tactics.
By the time we got back to the U.S., these take-no-prisoners tactics were deeply ingrained, and dining on starchy American foods, we ballooned to enormous size.
Armed with these stories, the Maccabees and their followers used guerrilla tactics to win the first national liberation struggle in recorded history.
Their tactics of kidnap and blackmail shocked the world and I remember the cold shiver the very mention of their name sent down my spine as a child.
They will be emboldened in their tactics and will only demand more and more.
While these strong-arm tactics have been criticized by some, the governor enjoys strong support from the local population.
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As a trained commando, Sam will go through a lot of climbing drills that'll come in handy for scaling walls and fences, zip lines and rappelling, among other tactics.
But author Rula Jebreal says the strong-arm tactics cannot thwart a people committed to his ouster.
In the meantime, we will be training our forces, re-evaluating our tactics, marshalling our strength, and, ultimately, keeping our eyes on the prize.
Chief Carlos R. Maldonado has police move in low-profile ways because Zetas study their tactics.
The rugby world has moved light years from the sort of brute strength tactics that England deployed in this year's Six Nations and alternatives are available.
A Northampton company was reprimanded by the Advertising Standards Authority after it used scare tactics to sell anti-radiation mobile phone products.
Rather, it was a stormy month of shifting positions, escalating tactics and fraying tempers in which neither side won any awards for consistency or scrupulousness.
Here are five expert-approved tactics that are guaranteed to make you feel like a better, fresher version of yourself.
He seized on her complaints that voters are getting irritated by nasty campaign tactics like the robocalls that have been coming from her own campaign.
He's a mean, mingy quasi nutcase curmudgeon who threatens players, gives them cold pricklies, and who demands attention to things like gameplan, tactics, and skills.
To authenticate his Vanity Fair article about interrogation tactics, Hitchens agreed to be waterboarded.
Marked females exhibited a bimodal distribution of guarding durations, reflecting the extreme tactics of immediate abandonment or remaining through hatching.
The problem for the government is that they've employed such tactics so often and so transparently that people are awake to their cynical ploys, their partisan purpose.
This guards against bully-boy tactics such as where a more senior party from the other side arrives to rubbish the deal just as their subordinate is poised to shake on it.
Why should they though, when fairly simple carp tactics with which most of them are now familiar, will produce very decent catches of quality chub and barbel?
Accordingly, you resort to false premises, lies and diversionary tactics.
Over a period of five to seven years, particular tactics, such as arson attacks and letter bombs, come to the fore, run their course, then fade away.
In many cases consent was obtained by Government officials through fraud, coercion or misrepresentation, tactics which annulled the validity of such consent.
Another reason might have been the dubiousness with which the tactics of the so-called New Journalism were viewed.
In their campaign, Dimon and Chase deployed the full range of tactics, ranging from cajoling to threats.
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More specifically, there are signs that the photographer put an idiosyncratic and skeptical spin on his appropriation of various graphic tactics and values.
The controversy that is now starting up about the tactics the Russian authorities used in freeing the Moscow hostages is just the media barking up the wrong tree as usual.
Now, unlike the master shipbuilders of the Mediterranean civilizations, the Viking shipwrights didn't think in terms of cargo tonnage, military logistics, or naval tactics.
Our indictment is ultimately not about logistics or tactics.
In the early stages, any plans about tactics went out the window.
So in the long run, their manipulatory tactics will not be able to stop the gold and silver bull market, nor will they be able to stop the continued bear market in equities.
Both had a single bream plus plenty of small roach on feeder tactics.
She cites military tactics of isolating and compartmentalizing as a way to deal with the transition.
As in the initial park protests, however, the heavy-handed tactics only seemed to exacerbate the conflict.
Dave Kearney then says he's had enough of the slow-ball tactics and bursts through a couple of tackles.
Military tactics concerns itself with the methods for engaging and defeating the enemy in direct combat.
It has even been used to formulate business tactics, and can even be applied in social and political areas.
De Re Militari formed the basis of European military tactics until the late 17th century.
A major development in infantry tactics came with the increased use of trench warfare in the 19th and 20th centuries.
The conquistadors were professional warriors, using European tactics, firearms, and cavalry.
European diseases and divide and conquer tactics contributed to the defeat of the native populations.
These tactics had been used since antiquity, for example, in the Granada War, the conquest of the Canary Islands and conquest of Navarre.
Doctrines, equipment, and tactics differed from those found in the rest of Europe.
These tactics consisted of small groups who attempted to catch their opponents by surprise, through an ambush.
He became the measure against which military leaders compared themselves, and military academies throughout the world still teach his tactics.
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This was due to use of terrain, phalanx and cavalry tactics, bold strategy, and the fierce loyalty of his troops.
The Chahar army was defeated in 1625 and 1628 by the Inner Mongol and Manchu armies due to Ligdan's faulty tactics.
Lacking the means needed for wholesale conquest of large territories, his tactics consisted of raids in the border regions of Vardulia.
Around 200,000 Spanish troops outnumbered the much smaller rebel army, which relied mostly on guerrilla and sabotage tactics.
Their tactics in open battles were generally inferior to those of regular soldiers such as the Dragoons.
Through his experience fighting in the Livonian War, he learned war tactics and excelled beyond the other hetmans in skill.
As in the Maurice Debate, his sense of political tactics was, in Jenkins' view, overcome by his sense of Parliamentary propriety.
In World War I it was only after frontal attacks had met with carnage from machine guns, that alternative military tactics were devised.
Publicity over British Rail's tactics succeeded in a huge increase in traffic.
The Afghans have been second to none at small-war tactics ever since they fought the British in the 19th century.
He had no power serve of his own, no backhand, no volley, no lob, no idea of pace or tactics.
Irregular warfare is warfare employing the tactics commonly used by irregular military organizations.
The speech began as an amalgam of scare tactics and bipartisan appeal.
The Asa supports different tactics because it supports a different goal.
Baba Au Rhum only just stays the minimum trip, but even so the waiting tactics he requires were overdone in the two-mile handicap hurdle.
Greedy tactics already backfired on Sisu and from my point of view they will also backfire on the caterers.
While many persevered with long-range Method feeder tactics, Eamonn stuck with the pellet waggler on peg 100 to bag 18 carp to around 12lb.
First, the US airmobile tactics did not surprise the Somalis, who had seen the United States use such an approach several times before.
Others kept their distance because they hated the Stalinism, the maximalism and brutal tactics of the organization.
Egypt employed tactics of co-optation and containment while Hamas was buying time, hoping it could exploit opportunities as they arose.
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That way, you can rebuff, high-pressure sales tactics, come-ons and deals that are too good to be true.
Williams ace Juan Pablo Montoya emphasised the huge role that tactics will now play in the aport.
Districts may also employ additional tactics to conserve resources.
These short-sighted tactics come at a moment when reaching young people on Social Security is critical to our own long-term objectives.
Police Minister Michael Gallacher said the rebadged squad would target sophisticated new tactics being used to dupe unsuspecting Australians.
His leger tactics with sweetcorn and pellets as bait put 169lb of carp in his keepnets.
It's the horrible, threatening, red-letter, bully-boy tactics used if you're two minutes late in paying.
Other groups in the progressive orbit are trying out other tactics.
They have only a toolbox of brutal tactics to keep the lid on.
Group leaders say Lazio used deceptive campaign tactics aimed at inciting hatred and hostility towards American Muslims.
Despite the blustery conditions, anglers enjoyed fine sport at Fontburn with ledgering tactics proving most effective.
But as often as his relatives talked about squats and barbells, they discussed cannon fire and infantry tactics.
Under De Witt, ineffective captains were removed and new tactics formalised.
Racial mistrust, military tactics against citizens, dissent quashed.
A return to automatic riflery is the evolutionary step in small-unit tactics, Westrom said.
Ripcord is a well-written and thoroughly researched account of ferocious close combat in the context of tactics, strategy, and policy.
My personal favourite is the 'Rumble in the Jungle' with George Foreman and how used those rope-a-dope tactics to shock the world.
Scorche-dearth tactics befoul and clutter the process, often making the Holy Grail quest for simplicity a purposely mired mission impossible.
Although the Britons outnumbered the Romans greatly, they lacked the superior discipline and tactics that won the Romans a decisive victory.
By 210, Severus' campaigning had made significant gains, despite Caledonian guerrilla tactics and purportedly heavy Roman casualties.
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The wider introduction of weapons and tactics supplanted the feudal armies where heavy cavalry had dominated, and artillery became important.
The Dauphin was crowned and continued the successful Fabian tactics of avoiding full frontal assault and exploiting logistical advantage.
Tactically, Henry's reign saw the Navy move away from boarding tactics to employ gunnery instead.
In Ireland, Elizabeth's forces ultimately prevailed, but their tactics stain her record.
The Navy yards were leaders in technical innovation, and the captains devised new tactics.
House minority whip... Gingrich has earned enmity in abundance for his junkyard-dog tactics.
The French army fought 67 actions and won 18 pitched battles through superior artillery technology and Bonaparte's tactics.
Owing to the Russian army's scorched earth tactics, the French found it increasingly difficult to forage food for themselves and their horses.
Opinion amongst historians today is divided as to whether the militant tactics of the suffragettes helped or hindered their cause.
Throughout the woman's suffrage movement, many tactics were employed in order to achieve the goals of the movement.
Both Germany and the USSR used this proxy war as an opportunity to test in combat their most advanced weapons and tactics.
The Netherlands and Belgium were overrun using blitzkrieg tactics in a few days and weeks, respectively.
Joint NATO maneuvers are as much an exercise in diplomacy as in tactics and logistics.
Claudius switches tactics, proposing a fencing match between Laertes and Hamlet to settle their differences.
Significantly, the author does not stop after discussing the criminal menticidal tactics of totalitarian states.
Defining the team's formation and tactics is usually the prerogative of the team's manager.
All three teams brought new styles of play, fitness levels and tactics, and were far more successful than critics had expected.
Brawling and wrestling tactics continued, and riots at prizefights were common occurrences.
Still, throughout this period, there arose some notable bare knuckle champions who developed fairly sophisticated fighting tactics.
Referees also ensure that the boxers don't use holding tactics to prevent the opponent from swinging.
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In both cases, the bowl is rolled as close to the jack as possible, unless tactics demand otherwise.
This was a surprise appointment, as Clough had been an outspoken critic of Revie and the team's tactics.
Playing as flanker, Wakefield introduced new elements to back row tactics which beforehand concentrated on the set piece.
In the following press conference, he denied the list had any part in his tactics, and claimed it was a list of the players' sandwich orders.
He finished fourth at Monza after a race long battle with Michael Schumacher, who he refused to blame the German after his aggressive tactics.
During World War I and World War II, Germany also made use of these tactics, both in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
Operating out of Jamaica, he carried on a war against Spanish interests in the region, often using cunning tactics.
He taught the Continental Army the essentials of military discipline, drills, tactics and strategy, and wrote the Revolutionary War Drill Manual.
Military tactics developed before World War I failed to keep pace with advances in technology and had become obsolete.
Commanders on both sides failed to develop tactics for breaching entrenched positions without heavy casualties.
However, throughout this period, British, French, and German tactics constantly evolved to meet new battlefield challenges.
But it was only after the adoption of improved tactics that some degree of mobility was restored.
By August, General Haig had concluded that a breakthrough was unlikely and instead, switched tactics to a series of small unit actions.
They were forced to resort to guerrilla warfare tactics and failed to win any major military victories.
In the Spanish Civil War, the Luftwaffe in the Condor Legion tried out air fighting tactics and their new aeroplanes.
Fighter tactics were then complicated by bomber crews who demanded closer protection.
The Luftwaffe consistently varied its tactics in its attempts to break through the RAF defences.
By September, standard tactics for raids had become an amalgam of techniques.
These tactics were skilfully evolved and carried out, and were difficult to counter.
Front line RAF pilots were acutely aware of the inherent deficiencies of their own tactics.
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Keith Park's tactics were to dispatch individual squadrons to intercept raids.
Pack tactics were first used successfully in September and October 1940, to devastating effect, in a series of convoy battles.
The disastrous convoy battles of October 1940 forced a change in British tactics.
Egyptian urban warfare tactics at Port Said proved to be effective at slowing down the Allied advance.
The Trotskyist Militant tendency, using entryist tactics in the Labour Party, had gradually increased their profile.
In 1968, the first tactics were implemented to decrease the population of Diego Garcia.
One of the more gruesome tactics used was that of the killings of Chagossian pets.
The war also employed modern military tactics, such as trenches and blind artillery fire.
However, many British ships escaped being sunk because of weaknesses of the Argentine pilots' bombing tactics described below.
Some attribute the phenomenon to new tactics used by the NYPD, including its use of CompStat and the broken windows theory.
He offered support for far left activists on trial, including a number of militant anarchists whose violent tactics he nevertheless denounced.
Cassius Dio records that the Caledonians inflicted 50,000 Roman casualties due to attrition and unconventional tactics such as guerrilla warfare.
The type of engagement conducted by Wallace was characterized by opportunistic tactics and the strategic use of terrain.
Robert's later performance in war certainly underlines his skills in tactics and single combat.
Kelly DeVries argues that Joan of Arc's aggressive use of artillery and frontal assaults influenced French tactics for the rest of the war.
Richard Ager Newhall's study of warfare in 1924 remains a reliable authority on the battle tactics and events.
He also rejected claims that Haig was a traditionalist and focused only on cavalry tactics.
The Royal Artillery grew by 520 percent and the engineers who implemented combined arms tactics grew by 2,212 percent.
The Spanish Civil War also provided an opportunity for updating fighter tactics.
In China, the Flying Tigers also used the same tactics with some success, although they were unable to stem the tide of Japanese advances there.

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