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Edited by Spooter:
7/20/2013 12:08:36 PM
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Difference between Strategy and Tactics?
I've always had trouble distinguishing the two, so I was wondering if anyone could properly clarify what sets them apart from each other. I'm kind of embarrassed to admit not knowing, but hey, I want to.
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1 ReplyA matter of scope and time. Tactics are what an individual unit or group of units (soldier, squad, ship, battalion, fleet) are doing (or will do) to survive or win an encounter. Strategy is how those movements and actions mesh with the overall campaign and the end goal of the team, army, nation. Combat units use tactics, commanders use strategy. A good commander makes his units aware of the overall strategic goals so that individual units (who are tactically engaged) can make decisions to contribute to the strategy of the whole.
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I would say that tactics comprise the strategy. Like, during WWI, the German's Schlieffen Plan to capture Paris was the strategy. But the way the men fought, how they manoeuvred, how they threw their grenades - that's tactics.
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I have more trouble distinguishing what's more important; a pyrrhic victory or a desired loss.
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This isn't about strategy or tactics, this is about survival.
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Strategy is big picture, tactics are small. Strategy is deciding to take the freeway to the store, tactics is how you pass the slow car on the freeway.
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A tactician is someone who makes things (plans, ideas) up as they unveil to help them in the matter at hand. A quick-thinker if you will. And a strategist is someone who has studied the matter at hand and makes careful decisions based on his/her indepth training and career.
