The guide provides medical worst-case estimates of casualties and remaining operational strength after a single CW attack on a tactically deployed, brigade-sized land force units, with protection available and protection unavailable.
Both strategically and tactically Hood's conceptions and dispositions were excellent, and their execution was most honorable to the skill and steadiness of himself and his captains.
In truth, a concentration upon the van and centre, such as Hughes describes, is tactically inferior to a like effort upon the centre and rear of a column.
What was tactically possible and safe--for the Boer is a cautious warrior--was done.
Tactically Ladysmith may be strongly defensible, politically it has become invested with much importance, but for strategic purposes it is absolutely worthless.
The westward turning movement was tactically a success but strategically a failure.
Noitgedacht was tactically an unsound position which Clements, assuming that his right was safe, had taken up in order to maintain heliographic communication with Broadwood on the other side of the Magaliesberg.
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.
These exertions can then be unconditionally demanded, and will repay a hundredfold, both tactically and strategically, the care bestowed in easier days.
From then onwards, with the Cavalry acting tactically on the enemy's flank, the Boer Army withdrew practically on Pretoria, and no decisive tactical result was obtained.
But as one has now to deal with tactically thoroughly trained bodies, less time is required than for either squadron or regimental drill.
This result is hard to attain by a centralization of command, and is best realized by the independent action of tactically trained subordinates.
Finally, and this is the most important thing, we must strain every nerve to render our infantry tactically the best in the world, and to take care that none but thoroughly efficient formations are employed in the decisive field war.
The Boer idea of a strong attack upon this point was strategically admirable, but tactically there was not sufficient energy in pushing home the advance.
The action was strategically well conceived; all that Lord Roberts could do for complete success had been done; but tactically it was a poor affair, considering his enormous preponderance in men and guns.
The result was equally indecisive, tactically considered; but both by this time had exhausted their staying powers.
Although tacticallysuccessful the battle was out of accord with the settled plans of the Commander-in-Chief.
At the Antietam he forced the Confederates to give battle, and although tactically indecisive, the engagement caused the withdrawal of Lee's army into Virginia.
Laing's Nek, Ingogo, and Majuba had all proved that some extraordinary weakness, either tactically or mentally, seemed to possess the bravest warriors in the face of this incomprehensible foe.
My great inferiority in numbers necessarily confined me strategically to the defensive, but tactically my intention was, and is, to strike vigorously whenever opportunity offers.
There was only one way to get clear of this tactically disadvantageous position: to turn the whole fleet about and steer on an opposite course.
Tactically this battle has become famous for the maneuver of "breaking the line," contrary to the express stipulations of the Fighting Instructions.
Tactically the disproportion was sufficient to give the latter the victory, if, strategically, it could be made effective at a given time and place.
Alvintzi's manoeuvre was faulty neither strategically in the first instance nor tactically as regards the project of enveloping Joubert on the 14th.
His position on Cedar Run, tactically strong, was strategically unsound.
Neither strategically nor tactically did he make a single mistake.
They were perfectly well aware that they had been held in check by inferior numbers, and that the battle on the Antietam, tactically speaking, was no more of a victory for the North than Malvern Hill had been for the South.
The armoured train incident was of no importance either tactically or strategically, and that momentary success was the only one achieved by Joubert.
For this reason, but still more on account of its isolation on the south bank of the river, Hlangwhane Hill, which looked down on the Colenso kopjes, was tactically weak and has generally been regarded as the true key of the whole position.
This course, though it presented difficulties of its own, was tactically by far the easier method of attempting the task before him.
The results, at best, were indecisive, tactically considered.
Tactically it was a drawn battle, strategically it was a distinct victory for Wellington; for Massena, probably piqued at hearing of his supercession by Marmont, retired after the action, leaving Almeida to its fate.
Thirdly the allied generals carried out tactically the purpose of co-operation with which they had begun the campaign, thus ultimately bringing almost double numbers to bear.
The one thing which every Englishman who pretended to be a general in that age understood, was how to take up a position tactically strong for standing on the defensive.
Tactically however Harold succeeded in forcing the Norman to fight on ground of his choosing, under conditions favourable to the English method of fighting, and unfavourable to the Norman method.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tactically" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
