When fighting head on, block as much as you can.
While on health the UK and Welsh governments may be fighting head to head, on the economy Mr Crabb took a slightly more collaborative approach.
The rivalry between the two is intense: They're often fighting head-to-head on multiple fronts, investing in emerging startups and backing rivaling players.
These and other pressures on traditional culture were clear abrogations of tribal sovereignty, but tribes from the Southeast culture area saw just as clearly that fighting them head-on would prove unproductive.
While Britain, Germany, France, Italy and other allies have all provided varying degrees of support to the Kurdish forces that are fighting Islamic State head-on, Europe has been reluctant to dive back into another Middle Eastern war.
If Tim Cook wants to keep his job for the foreseeable future, he should take a lesson from the Steve Jobs's playbook and stick to disrupting industries, instead of fighting behemoths head-on.
And he would know: After several years of fighting head-to-head with the New York Stock Exchange, all but two tech companies listed on the Nasdaq this year.
In other words, Sony is fighting head-to-head with Microsoft.
But the uncertainty of appearing before the Security Council, and the prospect of sanctions, has led some here to begin to rethink the wisdom of fighting the West head-on, analysts said.
