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Flat White

Where are the strategists and tacticians?

12 March 2022

11:00 AM

12 March 2022

11:00 AM

There’s nothing like the whiff of distant grapeshot to energise Australia’s plethora of armchair military strategists. Military professionals, on the other hand, spend an inordinate time pondering where strategy ends and tactics begin.

Prussian strategist Carl von Clausewitz defined strategy as the ‘necessary response to the inescapable reality of limited resources’.

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