11 sentences with 'tactical'
Example sentences and phrases with the word tactical and other words derived from it.
• « The ancient Greek word for Greece is Hellas. The period after the Classical Age is known as the Hellenistic Age because it saw Greek civilisation spread throughout the Middle East, thanks to the tactical genius and driving ambition of one man, Alexander the Great. »
• « Philip II was also a tactical innovator. He found a way to secure the loyalty of his nobles by organising them into elite cavalry units that pledged allegiance to him, and he proudly led his troops personally into battle. »
• « Unfortunately, Alexander the Great made a serious tactical error when he reached the Indian Ocean, splitting his forces into a fleet and a land force that would travel west separately. The fleet survived unscathed, but the army had to cross the brutally difficult Makran Desert (in the southern part of modern-day Pakistan and Iran), costing Alexander's forces more lives than the entire Indian campaign. »
• « This contact and trade enriched the Arab economy and led to a high degree of tactical sophistication among Arab soldiers. »
• « Part of the success of the first decades of the Arab conquests was due to the vulnerability of Byzantium and Persia at the time, and another part was the tactical skill of the Arab soldiers. »
• « The greatest tactical advantage of Arab armies was their speed: horses and camels were less important as fighting animals than as means of transport for lightly armed and equipped armies. »
• « However, Marx was very good at criticising the internal laws of the free market in capitalism, and pointing out many of its problems, but he had no tactical guide to revolutionary politics. »
• « Napoleon III foolishly led the French army into battle himself (ill with influenza and without an ounce of his famous uncle's tactical experience) and was subsequently captured in the field. »
• « Ultimately, it was the Russians who defeated Napoleon's armies in 1812, thanks in large part to winter and their brilliant tactical decision to camp and wait for the French to run out of supplies. »
• « The tactical problem facing both sides was due to the new technologies of warfare: whereas in past wars offensive strategy was often superior to defensive strategy, in the First World War things were completely reversed. »
• « Blitzkrieg (lightning war) had originally been conceived by a French officer, Charles de Gaulle, in a military tactical plan for mobile warfare. It was rejected by the French General Staff but was taken over by the Germans and implemented by the Wehrmacht. The irony is that de Gaulle would become the leader of the anti-Nazi Free French forces in the war after France itself surrendered. »