This tactic, which proved catastrophic in East Timor, is intended to justify Indonesia's presence as a safeguard against civil war.All this suggests that parts of the civilian and especially military leadership have not learned their lessons from East Timor: that fierce repression, coupled with clandestine plots to foment violence, can only deepen resentment at rule from Jakarta.
Then vanity, miscalculation and new weapons and tactics set the stage for military stalemate on a catastrophic scale, and once war started, rigid alliances assured that virtually all of Europe would be involved.
Their social engineering tactics, to be clear, were laughable but they could have been catastrophic if my friends were less savvy.
But the campaign may have backfired: Many seemed to view the intensive pro- yes" effort as a scare tactic meant to convince Greeks that voting "no" could have catastropro- yesseffortes, especiasly for pensioners.
Knight states that coercive tactics are unlikely to permanently lower the human population, citing the fact that humanity has survived catastrophic wars, famines, and viruses.
It's a fairly pointless assault, and the results are catastrophic, but the battle gives Mr. Scott the opportunity to conduct a brief, brutal seminar in 12th-century military tactics, complete with massed archers, wall climbers and vats of boiling oil.
Such diversionary tactics and chest-puffing have done little to quell Venezuelan anger and frustration at the country's catastrophic economic crisis, forcing millions of people to spend their days searching for basic goods.
In Iraq the strategy based on overwhelming force has proved to be a catastrophic failure, and had to be replaced by General David Petraeus's new counter-insurgency doctrine that emphasises political over military tactics.
Apocalyptically catastrophic.
