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In what sense could you say that economic sanctions against a country are 
tactics? By any definition they are not (since they don't involve combat in 
any way), yet such a policy can be called a strategy. Sorry about the 
cross-posting to irrelevant newsgroups (like .RPG).

Marsh, what is your programming language of choice? C? C++? Java? What do 
you think of C#?

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Doug
"Marsh_lion" <marsh...@SPAMparadise.net.nz> wrote in message 
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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).
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> Marsh Lion
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