Tactical analysis

In part, this series of speeches was tactical.

Tactical moves, however, can always develop into strategic shifts.

MRAP funding has pulled money away from other tactical vehicle programs, most noticeably the HMMWV replacement, the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, which has been delayed by two years.

For Sarkozy, rupture reflects both mundanely tactical and deeply personal choices.

The current operational and tactical scenarios required robust rules of engagement.

He will most likely opt for a tactical retreat in the confrontation.

The Tactical Air Command includes eight Combat Wings and one Transport Wing.

beginning a dialogue on tactical nuclear weapons involving Russia, the US, and NATO

Israel s latest operation in Gaza brought it no benefit, either tactical or strategic.

And political polarization narrows the scope for effective tactical and structural policy responses.

They gave him lessons in democratic theory, while he gave them tactical advice.

The second type of modern police shield is the bullet resistant tactical shield.

Allied naval and land based tactical air units also attacked Japan during 1945.

This is by no means a tactical position or an expression of political naiveté.

I suspect that Cameron is playing a dangerous game for purely tactical, domestic reasons.

UNMIL exercises operational command of this unit through a tactical headquarters located in Freetown.

Instead, the West chose to pursue only a tactical relationship with Russia s post Soviet bureaucracy.

Its armed forces are set to field new tactical nuclear weapons short range battlefield weapons.

It is hard to imagine that such a nuclear attack would have remained merely tactical.

The tactical mastermind of the Pearl Harbor operation, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, was one of them.

In November 1992 more RF 4Es were delivered to the 348 Eyes Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron.

It's just creationism under another name, rechristened I choose the word advisedly for tactical, political reasons.

Such an approach might make tactical diplomatic sense, as long as there is no background clatter.

He also proposed major reductions in the number of tactical nuclear weapons (TNWs) deployed in Europe.

He may well have opted for a minor tactical correction, only to wait to fight another day.

With access to privileged information, training and weapons they have used the force to their tactical advantage.

Formalised arrangements ensure that such advice is available at the strategic (including governmental), operational and tactical levels.

However, this cooperation represents a short term, tactical marriage of convenience rather than a budding new strategic alliance.

For Irish farmers the campaign has delivered a golden opportunity to engage in a tactical assault on Brussels.

After the government s military achievements in Quseir and Homs, there has been some tactical regrouping by the opposition.

The Battle of Sinop in 1853 the Black Sea Fleet under Nakhimov made a number of tactical innovations.

Tactical nuclear weapons were a large part of the peak nuclear weapons stockpile levels during the Cold War.

Similarly, if the US withdraws its largely nominal tactical nuclear weapons from Europe, US Europe strategic ties would weaken.

Nevertheless, for most of his presidency, Yeltsin kept alive albeit with many tactical retreats the goal of economic reform.

In 1997, Alenia and Lockheed Martin formed Lockheed Martin Alenia Tactical Transport Systems (LMATTS) to develop the C 27J.

But Obama s team does concede one point New START fails to curtail Russia s large numerical advantage in tactical nuclear weapons.

China may take comfort in remaining focused on non core issues, because such an approach suggests tactical cooperation with India.

Confronting the threat that an unsettled Iraq poses to Europe and to the transatlantic relationship implies stopping these tactical games.

They seem to believe that possession of nuclear weapons provides them with far wider room for strategic and tactical boldness.

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Since the end of the cold war, NATO has significantly reduced the number of tactical nuclear weapons in its arsenal.

However, with few exceptions, OIOS was not made aware of such instructions aimed at the tactical level relevant to MICA.

SINGAPORE Behind a veil of secrecy, China s development of strategic and tactical missiles is well into its third generation of modernization.

This might look like a tactical choice, but I doubt that it will result in a stronger hand for the IMF.