The phrase "a subtle strategy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a carefully planned approach that is not immediately obvious or is understated in nature.
Example: "The team employed a subtle strategy to outmaneuver their competitors without drawing attention to their tactics."
Alternatives: "a nuanced approach" or "a discreet plan."
They suspected that Trump's comment about "fire and fury" might be part of a subtle strategy.
The newfound interest in India suggests a subtle strategy shift for Apple, which has moved tentatively in emerging markets and has allowed rivals like BlackBerry and Samsung Electronics to dominate with more affordable smartphones.
Together, these studies show that stigmatized targets can effectively challenge prejudiced individuals to reduce their biases if they first use a subtle strategy that reduces defensiveness.
Or is there a subtle strategy to neuter the international regime and avoid pressure to increase US commitments?
The program -- an echo of cold war efforts like Radio Free Europe, which courted Soviet satellite nations with American culture -- is a more subtle strategy than one might ordinarily credit to a monolithic entity like the State Department.
More often, the doctor is called upon to carry out a more subtle strategy.
Local newspaper polls have recently found that only 14-23% of residents actually want to see them closed.Instead of focusing on the outright closure of the bases, many Okinawans seem to have adopted a more subtle strategy.
A more subtle strategy is for multiple byzantine clients to collude and coordinate their attack by minimizing the chances that one byzantine transaction would abort another byzantine transaction, but together they would maximize the chances of aborting legitimate transactions.
Here's a look at Danny Meyer's subtle strategy for brand expansion.
Garner's book is "so good and so sneaky," Wallace contends, because it relies on a "subtle rhetorical strategy".
In ways that have eluded Washington pundits and policymakers, President Barack Obama is deploying a subtle geopolitical strategy that, if successful, might give Washington a fighting chance to extend its global hegemony deep into the twenty-first century.
