Fabian strategy

The Fabian strategy is a military strategy in which one side avoids the other and avoids pitched battles and frontal assaults.

The object is to wear down the opponent by a "war of attrition" and to harass the enemy by skirmishes to weaken it, disrupt its supply and affect its morale.

The strategy is employed by a side that believes that time is on its side, but it may also be adopted when no other strategy is possible.