Strategy vs. Tactic

Strategynoun

The science and art of military command as applied to the overall planning and conduct of warfare.

Strategynoun

A plan of action intended to accomplish a specific goal.

Strategynoun

The use of advance planning to succeed in politics or business.

Strategynoun

The science of military command, or the science of projecting campaigns and directing great military movements; generalship.

Strategynoun

The use of stratagem or artifice.

Strategynoun

an elaborate and systematic plan of action

Strategynoun

the branch of military science dealing with military command and the planning and conduct of a war

Strategy

Strategy (from Greek στρατηγία stratēgia, ) is a general plan to achieve one or more long-term or overall goals under conditions of uncertainty. In the sense of the , which included several subsets of skills including military tactics, siegecraft, logistics etc., the term came into use in the 6th century C.E. in Eastern Roman terminology, and was translated into Western vernacular languages only in the 18th century.

Tacticnoun

A maneuver, or action calculated to achieve some end.

Tacticnoun

(military) A maneuver used against an enemy.

Tacticadjective

Tactical; of or relating to the art of military and naval tactics.

Tacticadjective

(chemistry) Describing a polymer whose repeat units are identical.

Tacticadjective

Of or pertaining to military or naval tactics; hence, pertaining to, or characterized by, planning or maneuvering for the short term; - contrasted with strategic, planning for the long term.

Tacticnoun

See Tactics.

Tacticnoun

a plan for attaining a particular goal