Contentious Tactics: Examples And Impact

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3 pages in length. Call it persuasion, coercion or manipulation, but contentious tactics are a necessary evil where the Army is concerned. The extent to which one party must "impose its preferred solution" (Pruitt et al, 2003, p. 63) on the other in order to maintain control is both grand and far-reaching; that contentious tactics reflect some of the most effective ways in which to achieve this objective speaks to myriad maneuvers designed with just that in mind. Some contentious tactics, Pruitt et al (2003) note, are less intimidating than others (promises as compared to violence) and are best utilized accordingly and in the appropriate situations for which they were devised. Bibliography lists 1 source.