Strategic planning sets up favourable conditions for tactical manoeuvre.
Tactical planning and actions try to achieve the best outcome under in-theatre constaints yielded by whatever strategic effect was achieved leading up to that point.
Relatively speaking, strategy is future oriented; tactics are present-oriented.
A tactically mediorce army can easily achieve success if its strategic planning is well implemented. Even the most tactically proficient army will fail with poor strategic planning.
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