Examples of offensive tactics would be using a giant catapult to hurl large stones at the beseiged walls or using a battering ram to force entry to entrance doors or walls. Examples of defensive tactics would be pouring boiling oil or other burning liquid from the walls of the beseiged structure onto the attackers - or even throwing bodily waste or corpses.
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Julius W. Wittman has written: 'Offensive and defensive tactics within the scoring zone in football' -- subject(s): Football
Football is a world wide sport. The sport requires physical and mental fitness. Tactics are everywhere in every position in football, including the goalkeeper. Full backs require the most of the tactics as they play the most defensive and offensive!
The North had to do the invading, so the South had to react with defensive tactics.
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Zombie Defensive Tactics - 2012 Awareness 1-1 was released on: USA: 21 October 2012
Zombie Defensive Tactics - 2012 Combatives 1-2 was released on: USA: 29 October 2012
This is a foul on the offensive player. The defensive player does not have to fall down in order to get a charge called
At the US Civil War Battle of Antietam, is was the tactics not the strategies that were employed. Confederate General Robert E. Lee chose his best tactic based on the fact his army was vastly outnumbered. His tactic was to maintain a defensive posture causing Union General McClellan no choice but to use offensive if he wanted to send Lee and his army back to Virginia. So, classical defensive and offensive battle tactics were used.
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Northern Iowa is one. Bryce Paup-Defensive and Kurt Warner-Offensive. Michigan is the other: Charles Woodson - Defensive and Tom Brady - Offensive.