 | GenghisTheHun (167)
12/18/2006 |  This title is also appropriate and would bring recognition from persons who are familiar with the classics.
The Fabian family was large and furnished many eminent servants of Rome, but this Fabius is Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus (c. 275 BC-203 BC), called Cunctator (the Delayer) whose tactics finally drove Hannibal from Italy.
The key to Fabius' strategy was never to come to grips with Hannibal unless victory was almost certain. Fabius knew that delay was on the side of Rome and time was against the invading Carthaginians.
While Hannibal is mentioned in the company of history's greatest generals, military professionals have bestowed Fabius' name on an entire strategic doctrine known as "Fabian strategy," and George Washington has been called "the American Fabius."
The Fabian Strategy is pure and simple attrition and wearing out the side that has more to lose and is dependent upon time.
Russia used the Fabian Strategy both against Napoleon and Hitler.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_strategy
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