<story><title>A Pirate&apos;s Take on Strategy vs. Tactics</title><url>https://diogomonica.com/2018/10/07/a-pirates-take-on-strategy-vs-tactics/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lordnacho</author><text>This explanation doesn&amp;#x27;t separate the terms &amp;quot;tactic&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;strategy&amp;quot;. In fact it mixes them together, he even says a tactic is basically a substrategy.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re using recursion, that should be clear. Just call everything a strategy, or everything a tactic.&lt;p&gt;Fact is this distinction between these terms has never been real in any sense. People vaguely use strategy to mean &amp;quot;big picture&amp;quot; and tactic to mean &amp;quot;particular action&amp;quot;, but if you decompose it you&amp;#x27;ll see more little strategies inside.&lt;p&gt;This is true in many game-like situations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>logfromblammo</author><text>Tactics is that portion of decision-making applied to repetitive patterns and recurring situations.  Strategy is that portion of decision-making applied to situations that are unique or unlikely to reoccur.  &lt;i&gt;Procedures&lt;/i&gt; are tactical.  &lt;i&gt;Decisions&lt;/i&gt; are strategic.&lt;p&gt;In a chess match, the opening book is tactics, the mid-game following the combinatorial explosion of potential moves is strategy, and then the end-game is back to tactics, after the board has been reduced to fewer pieces.&lt;p&gt;In the real world, breaching and clearing a modern urban building is tactics.  Part of the squad covers as the remainder moves.  Corners are checked before moving around them.  Doors are checked before opening.  There is still a strategic element, in that any given building will have a unique floor plan, but with sufficiently developed tactics, the strategy portion becomes somewhat unimportant.&lt;p&gt;Capturing and occupying a specific city is strategic.  The tactic of breaching and clearing buildings will be used many times in that strategy, and so too will the tactic of erecting concrete T-wall barriers and creating checkpoints, but the choices of where to start, and in what order to proceed, are all strategic.&lt;p&gt;It is difficult to separate the terms, because every real-life situation will have some portion that can be matched to a general pattern, and some portion that represents the variance from that pattern.</text></comment>
<story><title>A Pirate&apos;s Take on Strategy vs. Tactics</title><url>https://diogomonica.com/2018/10/07/a-pirates-take-on-strategy-vs-tactics/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lordnacho</author><text>This explanation doesn&amp;#x27;t separate the terms &amp;quot;tactic&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;strategy&amp;quot;. In fact it mixes them together, he even says a tactic is basically a substrategy.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re using recursion, that should be clear. Just call everything a strategy, or everything a tactic.&lt;p&gt;Fact is this distinction between these terms has never been real in any sense. People vaguely use strategy to mean &amp;quot;big picture&amp;quot; and tactic to mean &amp;quot;particular action&amp;quot;, but if you decompose it you&amp;#x27;ll see more little strategies inside.&lt;p&gt;This is true in many game-like situations.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>barrkel</author><text>Strategy is the singular of tactics.&lt;p&gt;Strategy is a route to a goal that occurs once in the domain.&lt;p&gt;A tactic may be repeated multiple times for sub-goals when the same or similar sub-goals reoccur.&lt;p&gt;A tactic might win a battle but a strategy wins a war. But if you&amp;#x27;re fighting multiple wars, then the strategies for each war are tactics, because there may be reoccurring elements in each war. It&amp;#x27;s the repetition and reuse that makes things tactical, practiced, routine.</text></comment>