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tactics Noun Mil the science of the detailed direction of forces in battle to achieve an aim or task Noun, pl the plans and methods used to achieve a particular short-term aim [Greek tassein to arrange] tactician n tactics 1. the art or science of disposing or managing military forces to best advantage against the enemy. See also: War
2. a skill or resource management in other contexts. ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
tactics The employment and ordered arrangement of forces in relation to each other. See also procedures; techniques. |
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| In a few short years he revolutionized, not the strategy or tactics of sea-warfare, but the very conception of victory itself. But Stremov, who had felt stung to the quick at the last sitting, had, on the reception of the commission's report, resorted to tactics which Alexey Alexandrovitch had not anticipated. First of all the horse, for at that time the strength and excellence of the army depended on the horse, for as to the heavy-armed foot they were useless without proper discipline; but the art of tactics was not known to the ancients, for which reason their strength lay in their horse: but when cities grew larger, and they depended more on their foot, greater numbers partook of the freedom of the city; for which reason what we call republics were formerly called democracies. |
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