Forcing defense

Unless declarer is playing for a dummy reversal, he usually intends to ruff losers in the short trump hand anyway.

Alfred Sheinwold[1] cites this example of a forcing defense to South's contract of 4♠: NW               ES West leads the ♥K.

He leads the ♠K, West ducks, and East's club discard discloses the bad trump break.

South has no better move than to continue spades, hoping for a defensive error, a winning diamond finesse, or that the hearts block.

At the end, West will make his small trump, winning in all two spades, a diamond and a club.