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* In ''Red Phoenix'', North Korea invades South Korea. US and South Korean forces essentially have to fight one big delaying action until reinforcements can arrive from the US.
* [[X Wing Series|Rogue Squadron]] did this in ''[[The Thrawn Trilogy|Dark Force Rising]]'', trying to buy time for Luke and Han to get into their ships and let [[Divided We Fall|Fey'lya]] escape with his force. Fortunately for them, Fey'lya was steered into an [[Engineered Public Confession]] and his people [[Changed My Mind, Kid|went back to help the Rogues]]. This wasn't enough. Karrde's smugglers showed up. This wasn't enough. Then [[Big Damn Heroes|Bel Iblis showed up]]. [[Hope Spot|This was enough]] until a second Star Destroyer appeared, and it took two counts of [[Ramming Always Works]] before the day was saved.
** [[The Captain|Wedge]] [[Four -Star Badass|Antilles]] ''loves'' these, since his particular style of warfare makes them ''work''. Case in point: the [[New Jedi Order|Siege of Borleais]]. All told, the siege involved an entire fake secret engineering project, an entire ''real'' secret engineering project, a planetary bombardment ''by the garrison defenders'', a Super Star Destroyer dropping into the middle of the enemy fleet... oh, and [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|the wholesale evacuation of the garrison]] before the final battle. Borleais cost two entire Vong fleets and a planetary garrison, and was a ''huge'' embarrassment to their command staff.
* In ''[[The Silmarillion]]'', the Men of the House of Hador delay the forces of Angband long enough for Turgon's Gondolindrim to escape unfollowed. All but one of them die, and it only gets worse for the [[And I Must Scream|survivor...]]
 
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* This was a massive part of [[NATO]] plans for a [[World War Three]] in Europe. The aim was to trade ground for time to allow US forces to arrive. One must feel sorry for the West Germans in all this...
** Though with West Germany's insistence on "forward defense", that their country be defended right up to the border with East Germany it was really more like trading lives for NATO Army Groups to mobilize their corps and the mentioned REFORGER reinforcements to arrive.
* A day or two before [[Remember the Alamo!|the battle of the Alamo]], the commanding officer received a dispatch stating that reinforcements were on their way to him. Some historians now guess that the desperate defense of the fort there was not intended as a last stand, so much as a delaying action in hope that those reinforcements would arrive.
 
 
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