Explained: Tactics - Operations - Strategy

So what is the diffence between tactics, operations and strategy? How do tactics, operations and strategy relate to each other? How do relate battles, campaigns and wars to tactics, operations and strategy? What unit (sizes) are involved with operations and which are involved with tactcs?


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Groß, Gerhard P.: Mythos und Wirklichkeit. Die Geschichte des operativen Denkens im deutschen Heer von Moltke d. Ä. bis Heusinger (Zeitalter der Weltkriege, Band 9). Ferdinand Schönigh: Paderborn, 2012. (ENGLISH VERSION BELOW)

Groß, Gerhard P.; Zabecki, David T. (Ed.): The Myth and Reality of German Warfare: Operational Thinking from Moltke the Elder to Heusinger (Foreign Military Studies), University Press of Kentucky, 2018.

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Sude, Gertmann: Strategy. In: Margiotta, Franklin D. (Executive Editor): Brassey’s Encyclopedia of Land Forces and Warfare. Brassey’s: Washington, USA (1996). p. 1003-1011

U.S. Marine Corps: Tactics. MCDP 1-3, 1997

U.S. Marine Corps: Campaigning. MCDP 1-2, 1997

U.S. Marine Corps: Strategy. MCDP 1-1, 1997

Truppenführung: I. Teil. H.Dv. 300/1. Verlag von E.S. Mittler & Sohn: Berlin, 1936

v. Witzleben (Oberst i.G.): Kurzer Abriß der Taktik. 2. Verbesserte Auflage der “Taktikfibel”. Verlage “Offene Worte”, Berlin, 1940/41

Headquarters, Department of the Army: FM 100-2-1 1984: Soviet Army, operations and tactics.


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