tache d’huile
n.— «Gallieni called this carefully coordinated military and social strategy the tache d’huile, the oil spot. Start out and carefully secure a hundred such bases and you are on your way to conquering a country.» —by Frederick Quinn French Overseas Empire May 30, 2000. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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