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Article #290775Re: PC gamers, know the roots of RTS games: TecnoSoft's HERZOG ZWEI on SEGA GENESIS / MD
From: Marshlion
Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 09:21
Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 09:21
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pigdos wrote: > If you look up the definition of strategy: "the science and art of employing > the political, economic, psychological and military forces of a nation or > nations to afford the maximum support to adopted policies in peace or war." > Therefore you could develop a strategy that had nothing to do with > battlefield tactics at all. Economic sanctions against a country or nation > could be said to be implementing a strategy but never a tactic (since it > has nothing do with combat). > > It could be said that Yamamoto's strategy at Midway was to draw the US > Pacific fleet into a decisive battle in which superior Japanese naval assets > would prevail. A decision like this is made at the highest levels of > command, the people who would develop the tactics to carry out this strategy > at the lower levels wouldn't even know of the decision until after it was > made. If you don't know where you're going to attack how can you develop > tactics? The Japanese naval command had several strategies on where to > attack next (after the Coral Sea). Some wanted to take out Australia, some > wanted to hold on to what they had, but to decide where to attack with the > combined fleet next wasn't a tactical decision. > > Would you say the decision by the allies to invade Europe through Normandy > as opposed to through Norway/Sweden was a tactical decision? I would say > this strategic decision determined the tactics not the other way around. > This still doesn't cause me to think that strategy != tactics. IMO, your statements make sense weather you say it was a tactical move, or a strategic move. While I agree that the word tactics is preferred in smaller situations (in a battle as opposed to a war), you can certainly say that a tactical move is a strategic move (and visa versa). -- Marsh Lion Programmer extrondinare
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