TACTICS

(Gr. taktika, literally ‘connected with arrangements,’ especially the arrangement of troops), the branch 275-76; of military science that deals with the handling of troops on the march, the CAIUS outpost line, and the battlefield, as disRom. tinguished from the higher leading that queest or, directs a campaign, which is the sphere known of Strategy. The subject is sometimes but divided into Grand Tactics, dealing with and the handling of ma es and the comb in a emperors; tion of all arms in the plan for a battle for and the manoeuvers that precede it, and hist. Minor Tactics, dealing with the detailed handling of each arm. But the dist inc giving tion is not important. Tactics, or fighting methods, have varied all through the of centuries with the development of of armament and organization for war. account TADPOLE. See Froas. Histories,