Word: tactics
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Indeed, they have displayed both tactical skill and a knack for survival in their running battles with U.S. and Iraqi forces since late last year. By and large they have avoided freakish displays of violence like public beheadings of civilians, an amateurish, if deeply disturbing, guerrilla tactic. Instead, Mosul's insurgents have remained shadowy, sticking mostly to the kind of lightning strikes against U.S. and Iraqi security forces that mark a professional guerrilla organization aiming to deal blows and survive to do so again in the future...
...appeal has been made. In the fall of 2007, Interpol published images in media outlets worldwide that drew tips leading Thai police to arrest a man named Christopher Paul Neil, whom they accused of sexual abuse and who went on trial earlier this year. The lightning effectiveness of the tactic raises the question: why not do it more often...
...Irish word, which former Sierra Leonean Foreign Minister John Karefa-Smart defined as “big stick” at a panel discussion on Sierra Leone in Sever Hall Saturday, refers to a problem-solving tactic. Find the cause of the problem, and hit it with a “shillelagh...
...times, Hamas has been willing to consider a “long term truce” with Israel, but is simultaneously unwilling to recognize Israel’s permanent place in the region. Israeli leaders rightly view Hamas’ tactic as an attempt to stall any meaningful negotiations while they arm themselves with more sophisticated weaponry to attack Israeli civilians...
...mocks. He is popular within the ANC and is frequently invited to perform at their events. However, Uys refuses to be a simple court jester: during a Winnie Mandela impersonation at an ANC event, Uys performed a skit about “necklacing,” a violent execution tactic endorsed by Winnie Mandela during Apartheid. Mandela, sitting in the front row surrounded by bodyguards, simply laughed. “You’ve got guts,” one of the bodyguards said after the show. Uys responded in characteristic form: “Can I keep the guts...