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According to one opinion poll, most South Koreans want to go in the opposite direction, with the US redeploying the tactical nuclear weapons it withdrew more than a quarter-century ago.
The persistence of ISIS underscores three strategic flaws in US foreign policy, along with a fatal tactical flaw.
Fourth, on the tactical side, the US attempt to fight a two-front war against both Assad and ISIS has failed.
Second, it seems unlikely that there will be much progress in talks with Russia on reducing tactical nuclear weapons in the near future, and certainly not until after November’s presidential election in the US.
Finally, reducing the presence of US tactical nuclear weapons in Europe would add to the concerns expressed by many European leaders about America’s long-term commitments to the continent.
They gave him lessons in democratic theory, while he gave them tactical advice.
As the Soviet Union steadily disintegrated, with virtually all of its 15 republics straining at the leash, Yeltsin gained the leadership of the largest – the Russian Federation – which placed him in a tactical alliance with independence campaigners in Ukraine, the Baltic states, and Georgia.
Nevertheless, for most of his presidency, Yeltsin kept alive – albeit with many tactical retreats – the goal of economic reform.
Lula won because he shunned populism's easy answers, and seemed to demonstrate a determination to achieve a strategic, rather than a mere tactical political victory.
He follows any tactical retreat with renewed aggression.
It is crucial that technical objections, tactical considerations, or protectionist instincts not be allowed to eclipse the project’s geopolitical importance.
In all of his big diplomatic confrontations – over North Korea’s nuclear weapons, over the Mexican border wall, and over the revision of the North American Free Trade Agreement – Trump’s modus operandi has been to escalate aggressive rhetoric almost to the point of warfare and then suddenly negotiate a tactical retreat.
As his poll ratings began to drop, reaching the low forties, Democrats made the tactical error of running away from him.
Some Air-Sea Battle proponents propose tactical preemptive strikes on missile launchers, radars, command centers, and perhaps also air bases and submarine ports.
And EU membership virtually guarantees cooperation against the tactical threat posed by the Islamic State.
That demonstrates the Islamic State’s tactical flexibility, not to mention the availability of people willing to commit suicide.
I suspect that Cameron is playing a dangerous game for purely tactical, domestic reasons.
If one group is rescued by force, the others will be murdered, creating a serious tactical dilemma for the Nigerian government’s special forces.
We need you to pivot in your responses from the tactical to the strategic, from the cyclical to the secular, from the partial to the comprehensive, and from sequential to simultaneous reforms.
Today, under the terms of the ideas set out in that review, the US contemplates the first use of nuclear weapons, and seeks to integrate tactical battlefield nuclear weapons alongside conventional munitions.
Pushed by the Bush administration, Congress authorized $21 million for the study and development of new nuclear weapons, including a 100-kiloton bunker buster, as well as tactical battlefield nuclear weapons.
Its armed forces are set to field new tactical nuclear weapons – short-range battlefield weapons.
Morsi and his Freedom and Justice Party (the Muslin Brotherhood’s political wing) gave no sign that they were prepared to accept real compromise, as opposed to tactical delays, in achieving their vision of an Islamic state.
Different traditions in tactical and strategic thinking also matter--to say nothing of the unique way Europeans forged their current cooperative arrangements out of aggressive nation-states that shared a common civilization.
Drawing comfort from his tactical successes in addressing the 1987 crash, he upped the ante in the late 1990s, arguing that the dot-com bubble reflected a new paradigm of productivity-led growth in the US.
Blindsided by the crisis of 2007-2008, the Fed has compounded its original misdiagnosis of the problem by repeatedly doubling down on tactical responses, with two rounds of QE preceding the current, open-ended iteration.
The main benefit of these proposals is that they are more strategic than tactical – better aligned with the balance-sheet problems that are actually afflicting the economy.
The tactical mastermind of the Pearl Harbor operation, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, was one of them.
The only policies that can keep these groups happy yield either a swelling inflation or reforms that will have him hopping awkwardly from one tactical alliance to another.
His promise to “drain the swamp” of cronyism and corruption, was thus tactical, rather than genuine.
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