They may exchange short term financial gain for longterm strategic disadvantage.
However, since the heights were under Pakistani control, India was in a clear strategic disadvantage.
"But in addition, the Navy will be put at a strategic disadvantage without those new planes."
In the diagram at right, Black is playing at a strategic disadvantage due to the doubled c-pawns.
European schools are not giving our young people the best opportunities in this emerging world of telecommunications, and I fear this will prove an important strategic disadvantage.
That's a strategic disadvantage for Germany that you cannot change with a change in style.
The strategic disadvantage crippled the trade in the Kingdom's capital.
Thus, almost by accident, the Confederacy was placed at an enormous strategic disadvantage.
It developed those weapons in defiance of international law as a means of protection, a counterbalance to its overwhelming strategic disadvantages.
That still gives them a wide variety of possible choices that would put the Federation at a strategic disadvantage.