The phrase "alternative tactic" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing different strategies or methods to achieve a goal or solve a problem.
Example: "In order to improve our marketing efforts, we should consider an alternative tactic that targets a younger audience."
Alternatives: "different approach" or "substitute strategy".
The alternative tactic for Cameron?
If nothing happens, Austria may well be tempted to try the alternative tactic: exemplary bloody-mindedness.
But spreading the brand too widely can dilute its value.An alternative tactic is to build a portfolio of brands aimed at different segments of the market.
If an expected level of sales fails to materialise, no rebate is due; the retailer's profits will have been falsely inflated.In Britain, several big chains have an alternative tactic to squeeze money from suppliers.
An alternative tactic to the walk-out – seething but staying – also made its debut in 1971, as John Fowles and Saul Bellow both felt the winner, VS Naipaul's In a Free State, didn't qualify as a novel.
Though the noncooperation approach of Mohandas K. Gandhi had remained the primary strategy of the Congress, in reality those Congress leaders who were less-orthodox Hindu or who were more secular-minded in outlook chose the alternative tactic of partially cooperating with political reforms being instituted by the British after World War I.
The Bharatiya Janata Party spared no expense in the run up to the rally, trying alternative tactics to bolster awareness and attendance.
Among these three players, Germany possesses the means to not only maintain the quality to win a tournament, but to offer alternative tactics, positions and methods to victory.
But after several decades of that approach, with little to show for it, some are turning to alternative tactics.Decriminalisation does not mean that people can use drugs with impunity.
By offering alternative tactics for Iraq that are overly precise, the Democrats may assume a share of the blame for a debacle that properly and solely belongs to Bush.
Apart from the above-mentioned catholic strategy and seeking the maximization of profit a fisherman, based on prior experience, can switch between alternative tactics during short-term periods (Salas et al. 2004) to take advantage of the: (a) feeding, (b) reproductive behavior and (c) the availability of the target species in accordance with market demands.
