No. There are tactical principles that are taught, and basic tactical approaches, but a "tactical playbook" would be completely unwieldy. The Soviet military u

No. There are tactical principles that are taught, and basic tactical approaches, but a "tactical playbook" would be completely unwieldy. The Soviet military used that system, including algorithms to determine which tactical approach to apply. Western military's have long focused on small unit initiative and rewarding novel tactics. A wartime military is the ultimate meritocracy. Even in WWI, which is often stereotyped as stupid generals sending men walking into machine gun fire, there was a huge amount of tactical innovation from the lower levels (by 1917 they had developed the small unit tactics we still use today).