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The Catalog of Anti-Male Shaming Tactics is a perennial favorite on MRA sites.
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The Catalog of Anti-Male Shaming Tactics is a perennial favorite on MRA sites.
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For instance, H. John Poole, a Marine combat veteran of Vietnam, wrote in Tactics of the Crescent Moon that bombarding cities, as the United States did in its takeover of Fallujah, almost always backfires, because embittered civilians provide more cover to guerrillas and terrorists.
Getting Out Right 2005
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For instance, H. John Poole, a Marine combat veteran of Vietnam, wrote in Tactics of the Crescent Moon that bombarding cities, as the United States did in its takeover of Fallujah, almost always backfires, because embittered civilians provide more cover to guerrillas and terrorists.
Getting Out Right 2005
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"It was not until I went to Jena and Austerlitz that I really grasped what an important part an eye for ground like Napoleon's, or blindness as to ground like his opponent's at both those battles, may play in Grand Tactics, that is, the art of generalship" (Colonel G.F. R. Henderson, "The Science of War").
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No More Strong Arm Tactics, which is how OLD SCHOOL POLITICS IS DONE!
Sources: Clinton, Obama supporters discussing exit strategies 2008
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The concept makes sense -- basically Netflix for video games -- and having been burnt on more than a few occasions by well-hyped games that either suck (see any Final Fantasy game without the word "Tactics" in the title since the Playstation came out*), or are fun but way too short to justify lots of money (Freedom Force), and the selection at Blockbuster is something we don't need to mention.
TV Notes: Threshold, Desperate Housewives yendi 2005
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The game called "Tactics," over which Bessie and Bernard nightly quarrelled, had been so far neglected; a circumstance not to be regretted, since Bessie generally played a losing game in tears, and signalised
Mrs. Day's Daughters Mary E. Mann
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"Tactics," -- as, for instance, in requiring the line officers to face down the line, when each is giving the order to his company.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Various
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There is no need of this, for the prescribed "Tactics" approach perfection: it is never left discretionary in what place an officer shall stand, or in what words he shall give his order.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Various
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