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attente strategique

English translation: strategic waiting period, strategic lying in wait

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French term or phrase:attente strategique
English translation:strategic waiting period, strategic lying in wait
Entered by: Silvia Brandon-Pérez

17:13 Aug 22, 2007
French to English translations [PRO]
Military / Defense
French term or phrase: attente strategique
Doducment on modern military strategy:

"Même si, depuis Napoléon, l’attente stratégique, est un form of action reconnu car elle permet d’exploiter immédiatement le premier faux pas de l’adversaire , le ralentissement du rythme peut également être source de difficultés importantes. L’aspect désengagement d’une force fait, par exemple, partie intégrante du concept d’operation qui a initialisé son action. Il correspond souvent à une baisse d’intensité de l’appréciation conflictuelle du rapport de forces monitoring d’une réversibilité de la montée en puissance initiale".
Neil Rear
United Kingdom
Local time: 14:13
strategic waiting period, strategic lying in wait
Explanation:
In articles on military strategy particularly as used in business, they talk about this as a defensive strategy.
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Silvia Brandon-Pérez
United States
Local time: 06:13
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Summary of answers provided
3 +2strategic waiting period, strategic lying in wait
Silvia Brandon-Pérez
3strategic patience
Lidija Lazic
3delaying tactics
CMJ_Trans (X)
3wait and see strategy
Abdelbaki Boukheit
3just for info
Julie Barber
1 +1strategic stand-by/lying in wait
veratek


  

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34 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
strategic waiting period, strategic lying in wait


Explanation:
In articles on military strategy particularly as used in business, they talk about this as a defensive strategy.

Silvia Brandon-Pérez
United States
Local time: 06:13
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Selected automatically based on peer agreement.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Julie Barber: agree, although no need for 'period'......
2 hrs
  -> Thank you, Julie.
agree  Gina W
29 days
  -> Thank you, gad.
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38 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 1/5Answerer confidence 1/5 peer agreement (net): +1
strategic stand-by/lying in wait


Explanation:
just saw silvia said partially the same thing I was writing

veratek
Brazil
Local time: 10:13
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  suezen: standby www.stratisc.org/strat_065.htm - 45k
24 mins
  -> Thank you.
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42 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
strategic patience


Explanation:
la patience c'est savoir attendre.

Lidija Lazic
Local time: 15:13
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench, Native in SerbianSerbian
PRO pts in category: 4
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50 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
delaying tactics


Explanation:
surely this is what they mean?

CMJ_Trans (X)
Local time: 15:13
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 23

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  suezen: check the definition here www.stratisc.org/strat_065.htm - 45k
13 mins
  -> read up military tactics and you will see
neutral  Julie Barber: I wouldn't have thought delaying anyway, after reading Suezen's link, with a para about it, I really don't feel it's right
1 hr
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59 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
wait and see strategy


Explanation:
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Abdelbaki Boukheit
Algeria
Local time: 14:13
Works in field
Native speaker of: French
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
just for info


Explanation:
Based on Suezen's link in French, I googled the names:

Strategic waiting

Faced with this "crisis of basic security premises," French defense planners must develop a credible doctrine and strategy for what Poirier calls a "transition period" characterized by "a posture of strategic waiting:" an attitude of readiness with no clearly defined adversary.
http://www.ndu.edu/inss/McNair/mcnair43/m043ch02.html

Julie Barber
United Kingdom
Local time: 14:13
Native speaker of: English
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