11 sentences with 'tactics'
Example sentences and phrases with the word tactics and other words derived from it.
• « Over the next century, the Assyrians became the most powerful empire the Middle East had ever seen. They combined terror tactics with various technological and organisational innovations. »
• « The Neo-Babylonians adopted some of the terror tactics of the Assyrians; they also deported conquered enemies as servants and slaves. »
• « From the phalanx, the Romans would eventually create new forms of military organisation and tactics that would overwhelm the Greeks themselves (albeit hundreds of years later). »
• « Hannibal defeated the Romans repeatedly with ingenious tactics: he lured them across icy rivers and ambushed them, hid an entire army in fog one morning and then pounced on a Roman legion, and drove the Romans into narrow passes and massacred them. »
• « Eventually, the Romans altered their tactics and launched a guerrilla war against Hannibal inside Italy, harassing his forces. »
• « In stark contrast to Roman tactics, Persia relied on cavalry rather than infantry, including both heavy, armoured spearmen and highly mobile mounted archers. »
• « However, while fighting, Persia and Rome continued to trade, and Rome also adopted various Persian technologies and military tactics. »
• « Perhaps the most important of all was the leading centurion, the First Lance, who dictated tactics on the battlefield. »
• « They had learned both Roman and Persian tactics and strategies of warfare and were adept at sieges, intelligence gathering and open battle. »
• « The Mongols were noted for being willing to change their tactics to suit the needs of a campaign, using siege warfare, terror tactics, even biological warfare (throwing pest-ridden corpses over city walls) as necessary. »
• « His victories were due not only to his own mastery of battlefield tactics, but to the changes introduced by the French Revolution earlier. The removal of noble privilege allowed the French government to enforce conscription and increase the size and flexibility of its armies. »