Research topic: strategy and tactics

strategy and tactics in warfare, related terms referring, respectively, to large-scale and small-scale planning to achieve military success. Strategy may be defined as the general scheme of the conduct of a war, tactics as the planning of means to achieve strategic objectives. Not all theorists of war make this a primary distinction. In the Chinese and Japanese traditions processes and paradoxes are emphasized more than categories (see Sun Tzu ). Karl von Clausewitz , the Prussian military theorist, who was influenced by Niccolo Machiavelli , described strategy as the planning of a whole... Read more