"strategic patience"One I've only heard in the last week or so, as the Trump administration has pushed back firmly against North Korean aggression and threats.
Which is contrasted with the Obama administration's "strategic patience" (i.e., ignoring N. Korean threats and nuclear tests, in the plan to just let things calm down and not escalate, but which in reality just emboldened N. Korea and other bad players on the global stage to even greater levels of aggression.)
I never heard the term during the Obama years, although it seems to have been coined during that time, perhaps by the Obama administration itself.
