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A tactical retreat is acknowledging a small defeat in the short term to gain a long-term advantage. A person may determine that it will be more detrimental in the long run to continue to defend the current position than to abandon it.
This concept does not only apply to military situations. It can apply in business. If a company has launched a new product at great expense but it appears that they had overestimated the market for the product, it may be to the company's advantage to make a tactical retreat and discontinue the project for a small loss now than to sink more money into promoting it and suffer a large loss later.
It can also apply in debating. A debater may wish to concede a small point early in the debate, knowing that he could spend a lot of time defending it and that in the long run it is not particularly harmful to his ultimate position.
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What battle tactics were used at the Nek?
Tactical retreat
Who was the confederate leader at the battle of atlanta?
John Bell Hood. Jefferson Davis had fired Joe Johnston because his long tactical retreat, however brilliant, did not look like the Confederate thing to do. So he replaced him with this gung-ho character Hood, who led his army to disaster.
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tactical level
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What battle tactics were used at the Nek?
Tactical retreat
What happens to police if they run away?
Nothing. This is called a "tactical retreat". Officers will retreat from a scene for their safety, then return minutes later with backup and probably weapons. At the same time a helicopter is recording movements at the scene from the sky.
What word or phase means about the same as retreat?
"fall back" retire regroup "tactical adjustment""Retreat Hell! We're just attacking in another direction." (Attributed to Major General Oliver P. Smith, USMC, Korea, December 1950.)
What is the definition of tactical innovation?
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What were the effects to the battle of the Antietam?
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How do you use frivolity in a sentence?
There is no universally agreed definition as to which sorts of humorous protest count as tactical frivolity.
What is a definition of recede?
recede-to go or move away; retreat; go to or toward a more distant point; withdrawl. (This is fom dictionary.com)
What is the noun form of the word retreat?
The word retreat can be either a noun (retreat, retreats) or a verb (retreat, retreats, retreating, retreated). Examples: noun: We conducted an orderly retreat. verb: We should retreat to camp.
Where can someone go to purchase a Tactical Tomahawk?
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How do you answer are you tactical or direct on a job application question?
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What was Confederate General Robert E Lee's basic theory on conducting warfare?
The basic principle that drove Robert E. Lee's theory on warfare was to always take the tactical initiative. This was most profoundly seen at the Battle of Antietam. There Lee, outnumbered, had the time to take the tactical initiative by placing his forces in a tactical defensive position. By arriving at Sharpsburg before McClellan's Army of the Potomac, Lee was able to set up his defense in such a manner as to have the tactical control of the battlefield. This forced McClellan to plan his attack on the basis of what Lee had forced him to do.He also attempted to take the tactical initiative at Gettysburg. Meade, in fact had to chase Lee up into Pennsylvania. There, unlike Antietam, there was no technical draw. He lost the battle and had to retreat.
What is a college retreat?
its a retreat for college
