In my mind, the to words mean the same. But there are tactical and strategic weapons in warfare. So i’m missing something. Other example: chess. Is it strategy or tactic?
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Tactics is short term and strategy is long term.
In chess, tactics are what you do in puzzles, where the result/advantage is seen in 3-4 moves. Strategy is long term moves which are played with little immediate advantage but are crucial in long term.
In chess, tactics are specific ways you can gain an advantage. Strategy is your overall plan. For example, if you can attack two pieces at once, that’s called a tactic. A strategy may be something like, “I’m going to play a closed position and try to control as many squares as possible.” It’s more broad.
**Strategy** is your overall goal and your plan to achieve it. My **strategy** for getting to work on time is to take the local roads instead of the highway.
**Tactics** are the choices you make at each step of the way, as you work towards your strategic goal. There was an accident blocking the local road, so I made the **tactical** decision to divert from my route and go around the block instead.
Scale and duration, a six man squad practice which tactics they will use if they contact the enemy, strategy is what combination of ground forces air force and economic power a country is going to use to resolve a conflict.
Tactics- how do we take that hill from the enemy? Considered by the commander in front of the hill.
Strategy- we need to take that hill from the enemy. Stated by the overall commander of the battlefield
tactical bomber ‘im gonna bomb this tank defending this enemy position.’
strategic bomber ‘im gonna bomb the means of production where tanks are made so the enemy doesnt have any tanks’
Strategy is your large overarching goals. Like say take x town, then y town to force an enemy to capitulate for example. In the context of chess strategy may be to fight for the center, or plan a king or queenside attack, gain a material or positional advantage etc.
Tactics are on a lower level, it’s how you execute a battle for example infantry takes that building covered by artillery. Or in chess you may see that your knight can fork something or you can force a trade that’s beneficial for you.
There’s another level between the two called the operational level. This basically links the strategic and tactical level and it concerns the movement of armies for example.
You can boil this down to three questions. What do I want? Strategy. How and when do I get there? Operations. When I’m there what do I do? Tactics.
It is often a question of scale.
How an infantry platoon assaults and captures an enemy trench is a question of tactics,
Where you should attack the enemy on a large scale is strategy. In WWII the decision to land troops in Normany and not Calais during D day is a strategic decision, the same for doing an omnibus landing, to begin with.
In regards to weapons systems, long-range missiles or bombers that often are used to destroy enemy infrastructure, production, etc are often called strategic weapons. Weapons that often have shorter ranges and the primary intention is to destroy the enemy troops directly are tactical weapons.
Another way to look at it is strategy is what should be achieved but tactics is exactly how it is done. Deciding to capture a hill can be strategic but how exactly you do the attack is a a tactical decision.
There is no clear boundary between the two concepts.
If you look at computer games in a strategic military game you might order where a division should move. The map might be all of the earth divided into large areas. It is a tactical military game you might order individual tanks and squads on a detailed map with details like individual trees and buildings, the size of which is a few kilometers across. You can still have a strategy in a tactical game but you have to control how individual units act to accomplish it.
Tactics is more short term narrow view immediate effect, like the weather. Strategy is more long term big picture endgame view, like the climate.
Strategy: your general plan of action / direction to achieve a goal.
Tactics: The (specific) means/actions by which you achieve your strategy.
Another way to put it: tactics are the specific steps/tasks you undertake to carry out your strategy.
Example:
Goal: To reduce costs for your business.
Strategy: Reduce overhead
Tactics: 1. Cut payroll/lay people off 2. Review all vendors and put out new bids to find lower cost options
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