"The difficulty of tactical maneuvering," one of his characters reflects, quoting Sun Tzu yet again, "consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain".
Whether out of reticence, ambivalence, tactical calculation or the difficulty of making policy in Washington, the administration's response to the human rights violators it has faced in five years in office has been mealy-mouthed and confusing.
And at least eight members of a Pakistan-based group of Islamic militants were killed in an American raid on Kabul.Amid the difficulties, the crucial tactical question is this: how far does America want its allies in Afghanistan to march, and how soon?
Cipher systems prevailed, however, for military tactical communications because of the difficulty of protecting codebooks from capture or compromise in the field.
Before the match Strachan had stressed the difficulties attached to altering tactical systems for the second game of a double header.
But almost immediately Trump ran into difficulties, owing to a series of tactical miscues.
The reviewer praised the smaller, tighter levels with a difficulty curve within those levels: "gung-ho" sections building to tactical play against tougher enemies.
In dissent, Justice Hugo Black wrote that the majority's decision required tactical judgments about invoking the privilege "so refined that lawyers, let alone laymen, will have difficulty in knowing when to claim it".
In a previous video, the same man spoke of the difficulties of fighting in Syria, saying "you don't just come here, put on a tactical vest, grab a Kalashnikov and get a big beard".
