Ther Face of Battle is an excellent book.
The best explanation of strategy vs. tactics I ever read was in a Guns & Ammo column by Col. Jeff Cooper:
"Strategy is getting the girl to go out with you, picking her up on time, taking her to dinner, cataloguing her charms, and then finding a nice dark, quiet place to park afterwards - from that point on it's all tactics."
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