The "Fabian strategy" is a military strategy  used by Muslims and
others  all through history , where pitched battles are avoided in
favor of wearing down an opponent through a war of attrition. While
avoiding decisive battles, the side employing this strategy harasses
its enemy to cause attrition and loss of morale. Employment of this
strategy implies that the weaker side believes time is on its side,
but it may also be adopted when no feasible alternative strategy can
be devised.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_tactics

Fabius calculated that the only way to defeat Hannibal was to avoid
engaging with him in pitched battles, so as to deprive him of any
victories. He determined that Hannibal's extended supply lines, and
the cost of maintaining the Carthaginian army in the field, meant that
Rome had time on its side.

   Rather than fight, Fabius shadowed Hannibal's army and avoided
battle. While seeking to avoid battle, Fabius instead sent out small
detachments against Hannibal’s foraging parties, and always maneuvered
the Roman army in hilly terrain, so as to nullify Hannibal’s decisive
superiority in cavalry. Residents of small northern villages were
encouraged to post lookouts, so that they could gather their livestock
and possessions and take refuge in fortified towns. He used interior
lines to ensure that at no time could Hannibal march on Rome without
abandoning his Mediterranean ports, while at the same time inflicting
constant, small, debilitating defeats on the North Africans.

  This, Fabius knew, would wear down the invaders’ endurance and
discourage Rome’s allies from going over to the enemy, without having
to challenge the Carthaginians to a decisive battle.

  Secondly, much of Hannibal's army was made up of mercenaries from
Gaul and Spain, who had no great loyalty to Hannibal other than pay,
although they disliked Rome. Being mercenaries, they were unequipped
for siege-type battles; they had neither the equipment nor the
patience for such a campaign.

  The mercenaries desired quick, overwhelming battles and raids of
villages for plunder, much like land versions of pirates. As such,
Hannibal's army was virtually no threat to take Rome, a walled city,
which would have required a long siege, hence why Hannibal never even
attempted it. Hannibal's only option was to beat Roman armies in the
field quickly before plunder ran out and the Gauls and Spaniards
deserted for plunder elsewhere.

   Fabius's tactics of delaying battle and attacking supply chains
thus hit right at the heart of Hannibal's weakness; time, not energy,
would cripple Hannibal's advances.

The strategy, though a military success, was a political
failure.onlookers all critised him for avoiding full frontal battle

   His inactive policies, while tolerable among wiser minds in the
Roman Senate, were deemed unpopular, because the Romans had been long
accustomed to facing their enemies in the field.

Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus Cunctator (ca. 280 BC–203 BC), was a
Roman politician and general, born in Rome around 280 BC and died in
Rome in 203 BC.His family was from the area now called iraq or Yemen
possibly , of the ' Sabian " tribe , then a part of ROME / Roman
territories

Note tall "thin features" ,  thin wrists and giant hands/ fingers  ,
with a injured leg ,  he did not stand tall like most leaders ,  and
facial " mole " / beauty spot , unsightly to Romans ,  all very
strongly heriditaty  " Fabian " traits

AND his left hand REJECTING the " fasces" symbol of power by force ,
being pushed BEHIND him even in this statue , when in ALL other
Emperors it was  at the very FRONT in  parades in ancient times the
Facist bundle LED all parade in roman times
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasces
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Fascism, pronounced /ˈfæʃɪzəm/, comprises a radical and authoritarian
nationalist political ideology[1][2][3][4] and a corporatist economic
ideology. [5]
Fascists believe that nations and/or races are in perpetual conflict
whereby only the strong can survive by being healthy, vital, and by
asserting themselves in conflict against the weak.[6]

The fasces, which consisted of a bundle of rods that were tied around
an axe, were an ancient Roman symbol of the authority of the civic
magistrates; they were carried by his Lictors and could be used for
corporal and capital punishment at his command.[19]

THIS statue is very interesting as it was found in Rome and tells
HEAPS about him , for those who examine its meanings , a GENERAL with
a damaged left leg , scoliosis spine , " mole ' on left cheek  in
MARBLE , almost certainly very accurate and lifelike as the cost was
great for statues ,  and he WAS the LEADER when it was made , very
interesting indeed compared to most OTHER leaders who " posed " in
their finest poses in statue art , a facial " mole '  and body
imperfections was NOT a good look in RESPECTED ancient Roman leader ,
the statue is probably very accurate

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabius_Maximus

English: Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus - Cunctator (Schloss
Schönbrunn, Vienna)

Seems ODD how few people ever notice the seat george Washinton sits on
has Fasce for arms

The fasces in the United States

The following cases all involve the adoption of the fasces as a visual
image or icon; no actual physical re-introduction has occurred.

    * In the Oval Office, above the door leading to the exterior
walkway, and above the corresponding door on the opposite wall, which
leads to the President's private office. (Note: the fasces depicted
have no axes, possibly because in the Roman Republic, the blade was
always removed from the bundle whenever the fasces were carried inside
the city, in order to symbolize the rights of citizens against
arbitrary state power (see above).)

National Guard Bureau insignia

    * The National Guard uses the fasces on the seal of the National
Guard Bureau, and it appears in the insignia of Regular Army officers
assigned to National Guard liaison and in the insignia and unit
symbols of National Guard units themselves. For instance, the
regimental crest of the U.S. 71st Infantry Regiment of the New York
National Guard consisted of a gold fasces set on a blue background.
    * The reverse of the United States "Mercury" dime (minted from
1916 to 1945) bears the design of a fasces and an olive branch.
    * Two fasces appear on either side of the flag of the United
States in the United States House of Representatives, representing the
power of the House and the country.
    * The Mace of the United States House of Representatives, designed
to resemble fasces, consists of thirteen ebony rods bound together in
the same fashion as the fasces, topped by a silver eagle on a globe.
    * The official seal of the United States Senate has as one
component a pair of crossed fasces.
    * Fasces ring the base of the Statue of Freedom atop the United
States Capitol building.
    * A frieze on the facade of the United States Supreme Court
building depicts the figure of a Roman centurion holding a fasces, to
represent "order".[4]
    * The main entrance hallways in the Wisconsin State Capitol have
lamps which are decorated with stone fasces motifs.
    * At the Lincoln Memorial, Lincoln's seat of state bears the fasces
—without axes—on the fronts of its arms. (Fasces also appear on the
pylons flanking the main staircase leading into the memorial.)
    * The official seal of the United States Tax Court bears the
fasces at its center.
    * Four fasces flank the two bronze plaques on either side of the
bust of Lincoln memorializing his Gettysburg Address at Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania.
    * The fasces appears on the state seal of Colorado, USA, beneath
the "All-seeing eye" (or Eye of Providence) and above the mountains
and mines.
    * On the seal of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, a figure
carries a fasces; the seal appears on the borough flag. Fasces can
also be seen in the stone columns at Grand Army Plaza.
    * Used as part of the Knights of Columbus emblem (designed in
1883).
    * Many local police departments use the fasces as part of their
badges and other symbols. For instance, the top border of the Los
Angeles Police Department badge features a fasces. (1940)
    * Commercially, a small fasces appeared at the top of one of the
insignia of the Hupmobile car.
    * A fasces appears on the statue of George Washington, made by
Jean-Antoine Houdon which is now in the Virginia State Capital
    * VAW-116 have a fasces on their unit insigina
    * San Francisco's Coit Tower has two fasces-like insignia (without
the axe) carved above its entrance, flanking a Phoenix.
    * The seal of the United States Courts Administrative Office

US "Mercury" dime reverse.

A fasces appears on either side of the American Flag behind the
rostrum in the United States House of Representatives.

The Mace of the United States House of Representatives, designed to
resemble fasces.

The seal of the Senate. Note the crossed fasces at the bottom.

The Lincoln Memorial with the fronts of the chair's arms shaped to
resemble fasces

The emblem of the Knights of Columbus

The seal of the US Courts Administrative Office.