Nearly all elements of the current counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan, from "clear and hold" tactics to arming "tribal militias," have their origins in the activities of British colonial administrators.
This was only a holding tactic, however, because by 2013 most of the NATO drawdown had taken place, and the Germans handed off Kunduz to the Afghan government forces, which, as we have seen this past week, have proved unable to hold the city without U.S. assistance.
Update: It looks like this was just a holding tactic.
"That's just a delay tactic to hold off the inevitable," he said.
(By "new rules" Leetch meant a season-long crackdown on the hooking and holding tactics that defenders used to rely upon).
In the meantime, many investors are suffering from the buy-and-hold tactics of their investment advisers.
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday reversed a lower court's dismissal of the lawsuit, which claims bite-and-hold tactics employed by police violated her constitutional protection against unreasonable search and seizures.
Do not engage in "place holding" tactics with one liner no solution content answers.
I also never predicted, after the insurgency began, that the extremists in Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia would so alienate Sunnis and tribes in western Iraq that a combination of the "surge, win and hold" military tactics, American-led nation-building efforts that focused on local and provincial needs, and the cease-fire declared by Moktada al-Sadr could create today's new opportunity for "victory".
Yet, other theories may hold that tactics are altered to, in turn, preserve the physiological integrity and capacity for movement patterns.
