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Strategy vs Tactics
In military usage, a military tactic is used by a military unit of no larger than a division to implement a specific mission and achieve a specific objective, or to advance toward a specific target.
The terms tactic and strategy are often confused: tactics are the actual means used to gain an objective, while strategy is the overall campaign plan, which may involve complex operational patterns, activity, and decision-making that govern tactical execution. The United States Department of Defense Dictionary of Military Terms[2] defines the tactical level as “the level of war at which battles and engagements are planned and executed to accomplish military objectives assigned to tactical units or task forces. Activities at this level focus on the ordered arrangement and maneuver of combat elements in relation to each other and to the enemy to achieve combat objectives.”
If, for example, the overall goal is to win a war against another country, one strategy might be to undermine the other nation’s ability to wage war by preemptively annihilating their military forces. The tactics involved might describe specific actions taken in specific locations, like surprise attacks on military facilities, missile attacks on offensive weapon stockpiles, and the specific techniques involved in accomplishing such objectives.
blah blah blah “Logistics”...
Took all the fun out of Avalon Hill games.
I just wanna drive tanks around, all this micromanagement stuff is for the birds.
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As a rule in strategy wargaming tactics games are single tanks thru company size units, operation are battalion through division size units, and strategic are division and up. PS First day of Operation Market Garden in ‘44. Cannot really appreciate it until you lay out the wargame maps and realize Arnhem is 10 feet away from your start point.
The old adage is that strategy makes colonels but logistics makes generals.