Through cunning strategy, Lysander totally defeated the Athenian fleet, in 405 BC, at the battle of Aegospotami, destroying 168 ships and capturing some three or four thousand Athenian sailors.

However, Themistocles argued in favour of an offensive strategy, aimed at decisively destroying the Persians ' naval superiority.

Strategic bombing is a military strategy used in a total war with the goal of defeating an enemy nation-state by destroying its economic ability and public will to wage war rather than destroying its land or naval forces.

Colonel Welborn Barton Griffith, Jr. questioned the strategy of destroying the cathedral and volunteered to go behind enemy lines to find out whether the German Army was occupying the cathedral and using it as an observation post.

Allied strategy emphasized destroying German forces retreating towards the Rhine, but, when the French Résistance under Colonel Rol staged an uprising in the city, Charles de Gaulle pleaded with General Eisenhower to send help.

Colonel Welborn Barton Griffith, Jr. questioned the strategy of destroying the cathedral and volunteered to go behind enemy lines to find out whether the German Army was occupying the cathedral and using it as an observation post.

A scorched earth policy is a military strategy which involves destroying anything that might be useful to the enemy while advancing through or withdrawing from an area.

As such, the more resources a defender devoted to reinforcing a fortification, the more combat power that fortification justified being devoted to destroying it, if the fortification's destruction was demanded by an attacker's strategy.

A good example of this strategy can be seen in THQ's game Dawn of War, where Space marines have powerful top-of-the-tech-tree superunits that are able to teleport in to the enemy base, and destroying the aggressive player's vital structures ( with aggressive player likely having majority of the army located near defending player's base ).

By forcing the Muslims to retreat, or by destroying Muslim forces separately, he would fulfill his strategy of recapturing lost territory.

" In theory, since the traditional methods of " taking ground " could not be used in this war, a war of attrition would be used, eliminating the enemy by the use of " searching " for them, then " destroying " them, and the " body count " would be the measuring tool to determine the success of the strategy of " search and destroy.

It can be said that, in the attended strategy by Albanian State against Birra Tirana, won the idea that the denationalization of the establishments in Albania would be more efficient, putting them in efficiency and not destroying them.

In a book entitled Death Agony of the Fourth International, Workers Power and the Irish Workers Group claim the iSt's strategy was / is based on, and they quote from an iSt document, " destroying " other left wing groups.

The Minbari strategy of leaving a system after destroying its defenders allowed EarthForce to initially have success in hit-and-run raids on smaller Minbari warships and supply vessels ; on the planetary surface of Earth colonies, human forces used guerilla warfare tactics to pin down Minbari troops.

On July 19, Hood learned that Sherman had split his army ; Thomas's Army of the Cumberland was to advance directly towards Atlanta, while the Army of the Ohio ( under the command of Major General John M. Schofield ) and the Army of the Tennessee ( under the command of Major General James B. McPherson Army of the Tennessee moved several miles east, apparently an early premonition of Sherman's general strategy of cutting Confederate supply lines by destroying railroads to the east.

Allied strategy emphasized destroying German forces retreating towards the Rhine, when the French Resistance ( FFI ) under Henri Rol-Tanguy staged an uprising in the French capital.

His strategy was based on an expected revolt of the Balkan people, a surprise attack, and destroying the main force of the Ottomans in a single battle.

Brodie later recalled that " There was no calculated strategy for destroying Soviet capability to make war.

Also reorganised was the relationship between infantry and artillery while Middle East airforce commander Arthur Tedder introduced a new strategy focusing the Desert Air Force during battle on supporting the troops on the ground rather than destroying the opposing air force.

Yami, reunited with Yugi, destroys the Pyramid of Light card with the Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon and then uses Kaiba's planned strategy to summon the God Cards and end the duel by destroying Anubis.

It was a combined raid of plunder ( taking the rich pickings of Maigh Seola ) and military strategy ( destroying the Dún ).

The strategy worked ; at 13: 30, seven British ships came in, and Cochrane spent the rest of the day capturing and destroying French ships.

Its provision, or threatened withdrawal, is sometimes used as a political tool to influence the policies of the destination country, a strategy known as food politics.

Animals that are time limited, meaning they have a limited amount of time to consume the food they need, use a feeding strategy of grazing and browsing, while those animals that are resource limited, meaning that they are limited in the type of food they eat, use a selective feeding strategy.

Simply living off of scavenged canned food from London shops is not a viable survival strategy on a scale of years.

This strategy is useful for the species because it makes the parents ' workload manageable even when food is scarce, while providing a reserve chick in case the first-born dies soon after hatching.

In addition to these factors, the national tourist agency, VisitScotland, have deployed a strategy of niche marketing, aimed at exploiting, amongst other things, Scotland's strengths in golf, fishing and food and drink tourism.

It is a military strategy where all of the assets that are used or can be used by the enemy are targeted, such as food sources, transportation, communications, industrial resources, and even the people in the area.

As a result, around 1980, Foodmaker dramatically altered Jack in the Box's marketing strategy by literally blowing up the chain's symbol, the jack in the box, which dated back to the early San Diego days, in television commercials with the tagline, " The food is better at the Box ".

By 1849 " a central part of British capital's import strategy was to reduce the cost of food through cheap foreign imports and in this way to reduce the cost of maintaining labour power "( van Houten ).

If food is scarce, parents may desert unhatched eggs, or allow the smallest chicks to starve, although the latter strategy appears not to be particularly efficient in protecting the older chicks.

A strategy of " species-packing " was practiced to ensure that food webs and ecological function could be maintained if some species did not survive.

Most tits are multibrooded, a necessary strategy to cope with either the harsh winters in which they reside in the Holarctic or the extremely erratic conditions of tropical Africa, where typically a single pair cannot find enough food to rear even one nestling and in drought years breeding is likely to be futile.

This strategy is very common in the software business ( for example: bundle a word processor, a spreadsheet, and a database into a single office suite ), in the cable television industry ( for example, basic cable in the United States generally offers many channels at one price ), and in the fast food industry in which multiple items are combined into a complete meal.

In line with the strategy to focus more on containerised and long-haul cargoes, KTMB now carries maritime containers, cement and food as main commodities.

Partridge reveals his love for the restaurant's food-he is notoriously fond of chicken and chips of any sort-and outlines his unique strategy for overcoming the inevitable delays in getting one's food at a Nando's, given the chain's ( to him ) over-complicated ordering system.

He withdrew to Tazhong ( 沓中 ; also in present-day Gannan ), and, apprehensive that Huang Hao might take this opportunity to damage him politically, did not dare to return to the Shu Han capital Chengdu, but remained at Tazhong, perhaps to carry out one strategy that Zhuge considered late in his campaigns — have soldiers grow wheat to use as next year's food supply.

The strategy delivered a marked improvement in sales in the food court and seaside restaurant business of Harry Ramsden's, promping parent company SSP to market the business for sale.

They changed their strategy so that food and meal times were never juxtaposed with instruction times.

Weston subsequently introduced a " simplify, innovate and grow " strategy designed to " fix the basics " by refocusing the company ’ s attention on food retailing.

All representatives of this genus have adopted the so-called " sit and wait " hunting strategy and they actively use visual orientation when watching for food.

Yet another strategy of oviposition among some Tachinidae is to lay large numbers of small, darkly coloured eggs on the food plants of the host species.

In Population Bomb Ehrlich suggests that " there is no rational choice except to adopt some form of the Paddocks ' strategy as far as food distribution is concerned.