Hypertext Webster Gateway: "tactics"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Tactics \Tac"tics\, n. [Gr. ?, pl., and ? (sc. ?, sing., fr. ?
fit for ordering or arranging, fr. ?, ?, to put in order, to
arrange: cf. F. tactique.]
1. The science and art of disposing military and naval forces
in order for battle, and performing military and naval
evolutions. It is divided into grand tactics, or the
tactics of battles, and elementary tactics, or the tactics
of instruction.
2. Hence, any system or method of procedure.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
tactics
n : the branch of military science dealing with detailed
maneuvers to achieve objectives set by strategy
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