> and if they were we would no longer be in disagreement. I tried to explain my (perhaps unorthodox) understanding of strategy and tactics in the last paragrap

> and if they were we would no longer be in disagreement. I tried to explain my (perhaps unorthodox) understanding of strategy and tactics in the last paragraph of my grandparent comment. EDIT: Now I can see that I was framed into the tactics:strategy dichotomy by the answers to my top-level comment. To get a better verbalisation of my ideas, replace "strategy" with "principles" in all I wrote.