Show DEVISED BY ROMAN OMAN GENERAL fabius maximua first to apply wear ing out cut tactics as an part of art of warfare the policy of wearing out tho the enemy in war by delays misleading movements feints of attack attach etc while avoiding open battle is called the fabian policy from the fol lowing circumstance fabius maximus was a no itoman man general in the second punic war having been appointed just after the roman had army suffered severe bevere defeat at lake Thrasy mene meno lie he perceived that his heartened disheartened dis troops and bands of raw recruits eold could not oppose successfully a trained army flushed with victory and led by their great commander hannibal maximus wherefore ihor eforo avoided pitched battle moved his camp from highland to highland and tired out the ahe enemy with marches and coun ter marches this he continued until til thwarted in his calca calculations lations b by y the impatience of the roman senate |