Whether it is his striking motivational tactics, his brilliant defensive schemes, like the one that shut down first Indianapolis's Peyton Manning and then the vaunted Jaguars, or his straight-shooting approach with players, Fisher is stepping out of the shadows to finally earn acclaim as a top coach in the National Football League.
And the targeting of a mall, protection of potential Muslim victims, and duration of the attack are all striking new tactics for Shabaab that suggest long-term, image-conscious policies.
For residents along the East Coast, that usually means striking westward, a tactic that's worked since at least the days of Henry David Thoreau, who said, "Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free".
Because it is smooth and can be held from either end, it tends to inflict few cuts or lacerations; it can be used for both striking and control tactics.
One of the more striking hard-selling tactics I could find was in the trailer to Busby Berkeley's musical Gold Diggers of 1935: "A million-dollar show with a million-dollar cast.
Perhaps the most striking use of the tactic involved "The Last Temptation of Christ," released in 1988.
Up to 185 people were killed in Baga last year, making the village an early portent of Boko Haram's new tactics of striking remote settlements before melting into the vast semi-desert surroundings.
M.M.A. fighters do a lot of punching, although they also kick and throw knees and elbows; these tactics are known, collectively, as "striking" or "standup," to distinguish them from the tactics that are employed when the fighters are on the mat, grappling for position.
"Universities are trying a wide range of tactics to break striking staff in this dispute.
At the same time, the companies' tactics are a striking attempt to shift the old-fashioned way that most audiences have obtained their media into the wide-open digital maw.
What's striking is the difference in tactics: While the democracies are wooing Macedonians with appearances and speeches by the likes of Mr. Mattis and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russia is conducting a veiled propaganda campaign, flooding social media with fake news and subsidizing local extremists who have organized protests.
