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April 11, 2005

Another take on strategy and tactics

Once again, "the map is not the terrain."

I just can't stop finding stuff about the distinction between strategy and tactics fascinating. Here's another great quote, this time from Baron Henri de Jomini's Art of War:

"Strategy is the art of making war upon the map, and comprehends the whole theater of operations. Grand Tactics is the art of posting troops upon the battle-field according to the accidents of the ground, of bringing them into action, and the art of fighting upon the ground, in contradistinction to planning upon a map."

via 1000 Blacklines

Posted by johnza at April 11, 2005 08:33 AM

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