Quote Originally Posted by Dayuhan View Post
Of course holding doesn't preclude offense, but once you make that transition a large part of your effort, likely most of it, will be devoted to an essentially passive process that can allow the other side to take over the initiating role.
Add the psychological shift in focus from active to passive and the not so minor debilitation and mind set modification that results. Focus is focus. Protecting your stuff is protecting your stuff...

The Army clears, the cops hold, the economy builds. You can change that but it won't work well. Don't have adequate Cops? keep clearing until you do. You can waste money building before you hold but it'll really drive up your costs...
Again, a comment from an amateur perspective that may make no sense at all to the professionals... disregard if that's the case!
I'm sure some professional will reject it because of it's provenance.

They should not; it's accurate.