Meanwhile, Israel has so far rejected any new border deal.Don't say Hamas is winningSome prominent Israelis dismiss the idea that its squeeze-Gaza strategy has failed.
He's not one for screaming pep talks or inspirational speeches -- he says his best coaching happens casually over dinner, when he might squeeze in a strategy session between self-deprecating jokes and long-winded asides about the Oakland Raiders or why golf really isn't a sport ("Anything where you can enhance your performance by drinking alcohol and smoking is not a sport").
The real explanation for the surge has to do with the "balloon theory" of counter narcotics strategy: squeeze the balloon by cutting off supply routes in one place, and drug traffickers pop up somewhere else.
When governments accede to these pressures to avoid genuine solutions, they resort to "squeeze the driver" strategies like the Delhi truck tax.
It amounts to a concession that the effort to match Mr. Obama's "surge" of troops in Afghanistan with a new strategy to squeeze Al Qaeda and the Taliban from the Pakistani side of the border has yielded virtually no results.
During Mr. Bush's first term, Mr. Cheney was among the advocates of a strategy to squeeze the North Korean government in hopes that it would collapse, and the administration cut off oil shipments set up under an agreement between North Korea and the Clinton administration, saying the North had cheated on that accord.
Greg Denier, chief spokesman for the United Food and Commercial Workers, said the fear of Wal-Mart's supercenters is the main cause for the California strike, but he argued that the supermarkets have exaggerated the threat as a strategy to squeeze their workers.
"I needed a job," said Jean. "They tell you, 'You'll make all this money working for yourself.' " She soon discovered that her new employer had embraced a controversial strategy to squeeze down costs by millions of dollars each year: it insisted that Jean and the other drivers were independent contractors, not employees.
It developed a three-pronged strategy: to squeeze as much money out of the film business as possible, to prepare for the switch to digital and to develop new business lines.Both firms realised that digital photography itself would not be very profitable.
What it needs is a fully formed strategy to squeeze this from every angle.
