Clausewitz_Strategy_Tactics

Clausewitz Strategy Tactics Strategy has been defined in the dictionary as the military science, or art, of marshaling a nation’s military, political and economic capabilities to bring about a desired military result, whereas tactics can be defined as being the military science of obtaining objectives through the deployment and maneuvering of soldiers, ships and planes, etc. Straightforwardly, in tactics the means are the fighting forces and are generally described as dealing with the smaller picture and the most immediate plans for winning a battle; while strategy instead can be described in other words as dealing with the big picture in a military campaign, including the overall plan for winning a war as a whole and at a large-scale level. In his magnum opus of military policy, the noted Prussian author, Karl von Clausewitz, described strategy, which he viewed as more of an art, as the planning of a whole campaign and conversely described tactics, which was viewed as being generally more scientific in character, as the planning of a single battle. Clausewitz asserts these general beliefs when he makes the statement “Tactics is the art of using soldiers in battle; strategy is the art of using battles to win a strategy, war, tactics, clausewitz, military, battle, must, side, point, one, however, victory, tactical, means, level, force, described, combat, battles, art, win, using, upon, total, time, through, strength, scale, political, out, offensive, makes, forces, both, yet