[michaelt]

Ironically, a navy that doesn't leaves port is a naval strategy of the 1690s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleet_in_being

[segfaultbuserr]

And the Mutual Assured Destruction doctrine in nuclear warfare can be seen as nothing but a sequential development of this naval strategy. I was surprised when I first learned it.

[azernik]

Even later - it was the main German naval strategy of WWI.

[edgyquant]

Not sure if you're being humorous or not but that's because they lost immediately in the opening battle.

[azernik]

They kept their fleet in port for most of the war; Jutland was halfway through the war, when the Germans lost patience, ended indecisively, and led the Germans to return to a fleet-in-being policy.

[hoppla]

In chess, "The threat is stronger than the execution"-Aron Nimzowitsch