MILITARY TERMS
TACTICS: The art of executing plans and the handling of troops in battle.
STRATEGY: The art of projecting and directing campaigns.
Strategy, the, is usually regarded as the prelude to the battlefield, while tactics is
the action on the battlefield.
In the nineteenth century, and even more in the twentieth as warfare became more
complex, distinctions began to blur between strategy as a purely military phenomenon
and national strategy of a broader variety involving a combination of political, economic,
technological, and psychological factors, along with the military elements in the
management of national policy.
As an extension, the term Grand Strategy has come to connote the art of
employing all the resources of a nation or coalition of nations to achieve the objects of
war.
MILITARY UNITS, U.S. ARMY
UNIT
COMPOSITION
Squad
8 to 12 men
Platoon
3 or more squads
Company
3 or more platoons
In artillery: battery
In cavalry: troop
Battalion
3 or more companies
Regiment
3 or more battalions
Brigade
3 or more regiments
Division
3 or more brigades
Corps
3 or more divisions
Army
3 or more corps
Army Field Group
3 or more armies
IN CHARGE
Sergeant
Lieutenant
Captain
Lieutenant Colonel
Colonel
Brigadier General
Major General
Lieutenant General
General
General or Field Marshal