Tactical vs Strategic Victory

A brief demonstration of the difference between a tactical and strategic victory in military terms.

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Light Thought var. 4 by Kevin MacLeod
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[conancimmerian]

Japanese Commander Hara Chuichi on Pearl Harbor: "We won a great tactical victory at Pearl Harbor and thereby lost the war."

[rednoob]

This looks like nazi and soviet, nazi won the tactical win and the soviet won the strategic win

[real_Leo_Chang]

Warplanning for a strategic warfare and Tactical are actually two different concepts. Although it is very possible to win strategically but lose tactically, it is rare because in order to win strategically you have to win either: 1) a series of tactical battles or 2) win the deciding Tactical battle. It's the short-term goals vs the Long-term goal. For example, in chess (much like war) an experienced player will set-up several traps to bait their opponent to overcommit or expose it's defense. If the player sets a bishop and Rook as traps baiting their opponent to overcommit and leave their primary defense and subsequently loses its king. The player wins both tactically and strategically. To win strategically and lose tactically often requires their opponent to screw up royally on their own tactically plan.

[kfizzledizzle]

A perfect example of winning tactically but losing strategically would be the 4th battle of kawanakajima plain, between two rival japanese warlords, Uesugi Kenshin, and Takeda Shingen. While Takeda Shingen was invading Echigo, which was controlled by Uesugi Kenshin, Kenshin launched a surprise attack on Shingen's army after a large part of his army was lured away. after a hard fought battle, Kenshin was forced to retreat when the rest of Shingen's army joined. Kenshin lost around 70% of his army, while Shingen lost around 60%. Because Kenshin lost more men and was forced to retreat in the end, he lost the battle, but Shingen lost too much of his army to realistically continue his invasion, so he had to retreat as well. Shingen won a tactical victory, having defeated Kenshin in the battle, but Kenshin won the strategic victory, succeeding in defending his lands from being conquered by Takeda Shingen.

[computerinsurgent]

I think going for a tactical victory is trying to inflict as much as possible, enemy casualties, while your own army has light casualties. Strategic victory is when you want to achieve the main objective, no matter if you have more or less casualties then your enemies.

[patfromamboy]

I didn’t understand that. I’m going to have to watch it again. I thought strategy and tactics were the same thing.

[李岸-sq]

Thx Jack, I understood, strategy focus whole battle.tactics service strategy, without care part of strategic(tactical) win yes or not.right, Jack?

[SharukhSaifi]

I think the defending army win both strategically and tactically because their tactic was not too kill as many people as they can but to hold them as long as they can and in end they successfully hold invaders for a enough long time..

[LitNoah]

I can't take the video seriuosly when Donkey OS atackkng the Billy's Castle and that serious music is playing ahahahah

[indethbed]

so tactics is short term and strategy is long term

[kalebgonzales]

So tactical is somewhat short term while strategic is a larger piece of the pie? Like the saying: “ they have won the battle, but have lost the war.”?

[danielkurtovic]

Jack of War, thanks mate. So good video that in a most simple way explain the difference, that a 5 year old child after watching it, will knew the difference for life.

This should watch ALL who still claim that Nazis almost won the war, just because they aprouch with scot units 19 km away from Moscow ( In your video that will be similarly, like the Donkey army not reach in arrow distance from castle, but still claim: `see how fast we come here, we almost don it~, without actuslly shot not a one single arrow inside the castle walls ).
Very good example video. Thanks again, tumb up.

[XxKINGatLIFExX]

I am not sure this is the best example. They are both tactical in nature because they are considered on the small time scale.

A better example would have been if you zoomed out of the battlefield and showed what the rest of the situation looked like to both sides.

For example, despite Billy being able to hold off the army thanks to his tactical retreat it might have not mattered due to the other side having sufficient supply lines and the ability to bypass the castle alltogether. That would be stragetic victory, thereby subdueing the enemy without fighting.

[Nonyobiz]

I love your videos, well done.

But we must never forget that between tactics & strategy there is the Operational Art. The operational level of Warfare bridges tactics & strategy.

"An operation is a weapon of strategy, while strategy is a weapon of politics. This is why an operation is not the highest stage of armed conflict. Rather, an operation is itself an element within the larger equation, subordinate to war in general."

- Red Army Commander G.S. Isserson

[ntatemohlomi]

In most superpower vs small band guerrilla type wars; the big boys take most of the tactical battles, but in the end the smaller less equipped outfit win the day (strategic) when the big guy is forced even by their own internal political dynamics to withdraw:
US in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan
USSR in Afghanistan
I predict the same fate awaits them Ruskis in Ukraine.

[DNAHCKR-]

Tactics: straight forward long plan
Strategy: Step by Step plans under different situations

[franks]

The battle of Jutland was one of these battles.

[diamondemerald]

Wait so does that mean tactical is worse then strategic?