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Dr. Fadl), an Al Qaeda ideologue for a decade, published several books denouncing armed activism, both theologically and on tactical grounds, after spending several years in prison.
That much should be clear to virtually everyone, if not to Putin, whose obsession with short-term tactical victories – which usually take the form of poking the United States in the eye – can also be seen in Syria.
The spirit of science found a tactical ally in the Catholic Church, which held that belief in vampires defiles the resurrection of Jesus.
But, when it comes to the European financial crisis, China’s behavior seems to be determined by purely short-term tactical considerations, even as Chinese investments in Europe tripled in 2011.
The Chinese can decide to cooperate with India and others to forge a new structure of peace for the greater Middle East or, instead, to use the growing risks that India and its neighbors face to pursue small tactical advantages.
But these were sustainable strategies, not tactical pirouettes.
In this context, the administration has rejected calls to withdraw US tactical nuclear weapons from Europe unilaterally, insisting that it will only do so with the consent of all NATO members.
Israel’s latest operation in Gaza brought it no benefit, either tactical or strategic.
In tactical terms, this should be easy and obvious: whatever the deceitful and illegal reasons originally given for invading Iraq, everyone now knows that this war has proved a political, strategic, and moral catastrophe.
They seem to believe that possession of nuclear weapons provides them with far wider room for strategic and tactical boldness.
But this does not change the fact that Russia is a declining power, whose diplomatic triumphs are mere tactical achievements that do not add up to a strategic game changer for the world.
But political decisions can also be taken by a process of effluxion that begins with an attitude, turns into a series of tactical steps driven by the attitude, and then results in a decision that is strategic in effect but almost imperceptible at any one moment.
Unpredictability can provide a tactical advantage, but it is also a strategic liability.
Their only concrete proposal is asymmetrical cuts of tactical nuclear weapons by Russia and the US.
But tactical weapons are not a serious threat to anybody.
Street protest, if it can sustain itself for more than that crucial first week, has an effect that is both tactical and emotional; mass protest during the French Revolution made it clear to the courtiers that this rebellion would be too profound to quell in the usual manner; street protests in the American colonies, in the face of arrest or worse, made the colonies ungovernable even before George III waged a costly, unpopular war.
As things stand, the chances seem high that the May 2019 election will end in a series of obscure, highly tactical fights.
This was a tactical move that allowed Obama to address the conflict without having to put any additional skin in the game, while advancing his visit’s underlying objective of reducing Israel’s ability to distract from his domestic goals.
President George W. Bush made a tactical error in declaring a “global war on terrorism.”
The US Army is also pursuing tactical innovation in the Pacific.
A final element of our involvement in the Asia-Pacific region is the effort to improve our capabilities in difficult tactical environments.
And at other times, like now, much that hangs in the balance is affected by the deliberate, personal, and short-term tactical considerations of people running for election.
Such an approach might make tactical diplomatic sense, as long as there is no background clatter.
China may take comfort in remaining focused on non-core issues, because such an approach suggests tactical cooperation with India.
With the recent deal, Michel Barnier, the bloc’s chief negotiator, scored a tactical victory.
“It took thirty years before I found out,” McNamara said, “that there were already nuclear arms on Cuba: 162 charges, of which 90 were tactical nuclear weapons.”
The new US doctrine stipulates an increase in the number of tactical nuclear arms with relatively small explosive potential.
In contrast to the Pentagon’s view, the costly development of more tactical arms would in fact lower the threshold for nuclear conflict.
Even in the highly improbable event that an uncontrolled escalation could be avoided after “a limited nuclear employment,” one tactical weapon alone could generate an explosion comparable to those that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Moreover, in the 1991 campaign to liberate Kuwait, Western countries threatened to respond with tactical nuclear weapons if Saddam deployed chemical weapons.
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