Some Elements of Tactics
Author | : Frank Schaffer Besson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Tactics |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Frank Schaffer Besson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Tactics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Xiu-bao Yu |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2021-03-29 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9813347139 |
This open access book clarifies confusions of strategy that have existed for nearly 40 years through the core thoughts of three fundamental elements. Unlike the traditional definition of strategy as "a plan to achieve a long-term goal from overall considerations”in a linear view, this book defines strategy from non-linear viewpoint as it is in the real world. The art of a strategy lies not only in the determination of development goals, but also in the identification of development problems and putting forward overall guiding ideology of solving problems. Rich illustrations as well as numerous business and military cases are presented in helping readers to understand the fundamental elements of strategy.The general scope of the book includes introductions to the three fundamental elements of strategy, three-sub decisions of a complete strategic decision, incomplete strategies, relationship between tactic and strategy, three elements of competitive and corporative strategies. There may be biases in company-level, real strategic decision-making which makes a complete strategy not necessarily a perfect one. The book introduces biases and reasons for the biases, helping industrial strategic decision-makers understand the importance of knowing the nature of the company, the industry and its environment. In addition, this book also presents principles and evaluation approaches of strategic decisions, explores the reasons for the excessive definitions of the strategy concept, and discusses directions of future’s research tasks.The book will benefit business managers who are interested in knowing what a complete strategic decision is and how to avoid errors or biases in strategic decision-making. It also benefits students in business schools (especially in MBA/EMBA programs) who are (or will be) on executive positions. Academic researchers may find it is interesting to understand strategy from the view of the three elements. The new view provides a novel insight into strategy and promotes several research directions in the future. The three elements of strategy are also applicable to military strategies and readers who are interested in military and may find its value as well.
Author | : Brett Friedman |
Publisher | : Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2017-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1682471640 |
Originally setting out to write the very book that he would have wanted to own as a young infantryman, the author penned On Tactics as a remedy for navigating the chaotic and inchoate realm of tactical theory. Challenging centuries-old conventional wisdom regarding the principles of war, tactics, and the roles of strategy, doctrine, experiential learning, and military history, Friedman's work offers a striking synthesis of thinking on tactics as well as strategy. Part One of the book establishes a tactical system meant to replace the Principles of War checklist. First, the contextual role of tactics with regards to strategy and war will be established. This will necessarily lean on major strategic theories in order to illuminate the role of tactics. This section will be formed around the Physical, Mental, and Moral planes of battlefield interaction used by theorists such as J.F.C Fuller and John Boyd. Each plane will then be examined in turn, and many of the classic Principles of War will be discussed along with some new ones. It will present some standard methods that tacticians can use to gain an advantage on the battlefield using historical examples that illustrate each concept. These "tactical tenets" include maneuver, mass, firepower, tempo, surprise, deception, confusion, shock, and the role of the moral aspects of combat. Finally, Part One will circle back around by discussing the role of tactical victory- once achieved- in contributed to a strategy. Part One is short by design. It is intended to be both compelling and easily mastered for junior non-commissioned officers and company grade officers, while still rich enough to be interesting to both specialist and non-specialist academics. It is a book meant not just for bookshelves but also for ruck sacks and cargo pockets. Part Two builds on Part One by exploring concepts with which the tactician must be familiar with such as the culminating point of victory, mission tactics and decentralized command and control, offensive and defensive operations, and the initiative. Part Three will conclude the book examining implications of the presented tactical systems to a variety of other issues in strategic studies.
Author | : Wilkinson J. Shaw |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Tactics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Wilkinson Jocelyn Shaw |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : Military art and science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Wilkinson J. Shaw |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1882 |
Genre | : Defensive (Military science) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 1882 |
Genre | : Military art and science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Wilkinson Jocelyn Shaw |
Publisher | : Palala Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2016-05-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781357138776 |
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Author | : Edward Yates (Barrister-at-Law.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1855 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Department of Defense |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 2017-05-22 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781546814177 |
This publication is about winning in combat. Winning requires many things: excellence in techniques, an appreciation of the enemy, exemplary leadership, battlefield judgment, and focused combat power. Yet these factors by themselves do not ensure success in battle. Many armies, both winners and losers, have possessed many or all of these attributes. When we examine closely the differences between victor and vanquished, we draw one conclusion. Success went to the armies whose leaders, senior and junior, could best focus their efforts-their skills and their resources-toward a decisive end. Their success arose not merely from excellence in techniques, procedures, and material but from their leaders' abilities to uniquely and effectively combine them. Winning in combat depends upon tactical leaders who can think creatively and act decisively.