The Fabian strategy
How to trade space for time
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11221537 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Ossie Carr (0000-0003-3258-4269, Strategic & Defense Studies Centre, Australian National University, Acton, Australia, corresponding author), Benjamin Walsh (0000-0003-0515-4626, Strategic & Defense Studies Centre, Australian National University, Acton, Australia) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 78-96 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Strategy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0149-5933 • E-ISSN: 1521-0448 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01495933.2021.2017749 |
| OpenAlex | W4213345502 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
The Fabian strategy is one of the most famous military strategies. Yet beyond notions of withdrawal and trading “space for time”, there is little clarity in the literature about how it operates. In this article, we develop a framework to explain the strategy based wearing down an adversary over time and then seeking a battlefield decision. We also examine contingent factors in shaping success or failure. In the final section, we explore what the Fabian strategy, famous for its use of time, tells us about acting strategically in the temporal domain
Adversary · Battlefield · CLARITY · Computer security · Domain (mathematical analysis · Operations research · Political science · Space (punctuation) · Computer Science · Engineering · History · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Mathematics
| Citations per year | 1.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |