It was neither for sentiment nor for strategical advantage solely that Italy finally entered the war.
So much for the sentimental and the strategical threads in the Consulta negotiations.
The acquisition by Germany of South West Africa was of great strategical importance, enabling them to establish in time a system of communication by wireless telegraphy which covered the whole continent.
Kiau-Chau is a splendid harbour and, in regard to Pekin, of great strategical importance.
This is exactly what the armies of 1914 did; they tactically went bankrupt because they were sufficiently big, or the area of operations was sufficiently small, to deny to them strategical movement.
Enough has been said with reference to the strategical considerations influencing the selection of the point of crossing a river.
It comprises the order and details of marches and camps, and of quartering and supplying troops; in a word, it is the execution of strategical and tactical enterprises.
This plan of war may be called the defensive-offensive, and may have strategicalas well as tactical advantages.
There is still another strategical consideration as to the direction of a retreat,--to decide when it should be made perpendicularly to the frontier and toward the interior of the country, or when it should be parallel to the frontier.
Finally, there is a strategical consideration connected with descents which may be usefully pointed out.
Fortresses regarded as strategical means, as a refuge for an army, as an obstacle to its progress: the sieges to be made and to be covered.
A pivot of operations, on the contrary, is a material point of both strategical and tactical importance, serves as a point of support and endures throughout a campaign.
Strategical lines of defense are subdivided into two classes: 1.
Lines of defense are classified as strategical and tactical.
The subject of battles is somewhat more complicated; for in the arrangements for these there are both strategical and tactical considerations to be taken into account and harmonized.
After the war of 1897 Greece restored to Turkey some strategical points on the frontier possessing no geographical importance.
The new plan, suggested probably by Rupert, had already been tried with strategical success in the summer campaign of 1644.
So the Baron was dismayed, and set to work by more arts and charms to discover if this maiden were already born, and if so, where she lived.
Since the position was virtually one of war, we must consider what was the strategical object of this force.
It has been said of him that he invented the revolutionary method of strategical concentration and tactical massing in the field.
Of course, Julius Caesar had nothing to do with the Tower, but the Roman remains that have been discovered on the site prove that this grand strategical position had been utilised from the early period of London's history.
We now come to London Bridge, the great southern approach to London, and the most important strategical position, as when that was fortified the inhabitants were safe from attack on the south.
The Subaltern could not help admiring the skill which was constantly being shown by the Staff not only in the strategical dispositions of the retreat, but in comparatively minute details such as this.
Such ideas as the Subaltern himself had on the strategical situation were but crude.
If this had been observed, it would have been almost a strategical impossibility to turn the Allied left flank.
The strategical ideas of the Machine-Gunner may have been faulty, but he has saved more lives with his guns than any doctor in the land.
Beyond the broad facts stated above, the extent of South Africa renders it as impossible to specify any typical climatic or scenic peculiarities common to the whole of it, as to fix upon any strategical or tactical character that is universal.
Whatever illusions may have existed previously about the strategical situation, none now remained.
Gatacre's decision to advance on Stormberg was fully justified by the strategical situation.
Upon the central South African plateau tactical and strategical success is dependent upon rapid manoeuvring.
The cloud of war rapidly spread over the whole of the South African horizon, and the strategical situation became sharply defined.
Buller, that confidence, which is established between troops and their superior leaders by intimate mutual knowledge, did not exist, and could not be affected by that reorganisation, which the strategical situation necessitated.
Thus, ignorant of theirstrategical defeat, they rejoiced at what seemed a tactical victory.
In order to save the poor fellow from his impending doom, it seemed that nothing would avail but a bold strategical movement.
In this dreadful crisis Mr. McKim, with his usual good judgment and remarkably quick, strategical mind, especially in matters pertaining to the U.
But that very excuse is the strongest condemnation of the inexcusable error, and this strategical fault of Pichegru's was soon paid for by the imperilling of all the great body of French troops within that rashly projected triangle.
The first was not; and its failure is the story of the defeat suffered by the Duke of York in particular, and the consequent break-down of the whole strategical conception of the allies.
In Kheyr-ed-Din Barbarossa sound strategical instinct went hand in hand with the desperate valor of the corsair.
Although it was taken for strategical reasons, the fact that the Holy City was once more in the hands of Christians meant more to the world than the military advantage gained by its capture.
So long as France possesses Strassburg and Metz her strategical position is stronger offensively than ours is defensively.
Their strategical goal which was our highest hope was gained.
He was uneducated, and had neither experience of nor training for the strategical handling of great armies.
But if the soldier in the forward division knows nothing of the strategical events of his war, there are many things of which he does know, and so well too that they eclipse the greater strategical considerations of the war.
As General Pershing, in his report of the operations culminating in the last phase of the Meuse-Argonne battles, said: "The strategicalgoal which was our highest hope was gained.
This was not an ordinary strategicalor tactical retreat.
But the prize was the strategical key to the Gallipoli Peninsula.
Meanwhile the political and strategical conditions of these islands in the near future are far more likely to resemble those of the great Napoleonic struggle than those of the Colonial Empire in its halcyon period.
This would merely mean exchanging Austrian strategical predominance for Slavonic, and, consequently, Russian predominance nearly as threatening to Italian interests.
It was indeed one of those strategical points from which branch forth all the ramifications of the enemy's efforts.
From the Montello to the lower Piave the Austrian strategical plan has divided its forces into three principal columns of attack.
Vittorio is again a point of great strategical importance.
The geography of the country, its strategical features far afield from the actual Russian positions, therefore, become matters of moment which must be understood to permit a comprehensive understanding of the battle and its results.
At the apex of the triangular wedge of land which divides the Ai from the Yalu is situated the Hosan, or Tiger Hill, an important strategical position commanding the south bank of the main river.
In this all-important matter of rapidity of communication the Japanese possessed an advantage inherent to the situation and of the profoundest strategical influence.
He could never review the situation with a single eye to its supreme strategical necessities; he must always qualify his dispositions and plans by regard for the plight of Port Arthur.
It is situated 110 miles to the northeast of Niuchwang, and its position in the centre of the Manchurian railway system renders it a place of much strategical importance.
Sidenote: Weak Communications] The strategicalproblem which presented itself at the outbreak of hostilities was a comparatively simple one--for Japan at any rate.
The laborious and patient meditation which brings a converging series of arguments to bear upon a single point, was to him as impossible as the power of devising an elaborate strategical combination to a dashing Prince Rupert.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "strategical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
