perfidy

This is actually from a few days back:

Humans are very tactical. This is altogether fitting. Not every tactic is strategic but all strategy is tactical. Strategy is always an accumulation of tactics. Tactics are concrete. The strategy that connects them is less so. Moment by moment, every life is tactical. However, in the same flow from moment to moment, life is not necessarily strategic. A focus on tactics is natural and a focus on strategy is somewhat unnatural. This drags the mind strongly to the concreteness of tactics and away from the diffuseness of strategy. Tactical thinking tends to reduce strategy to a parliament of hammers and every situation to a nail.

From the Committee of Public Safety.  The whole post is excellent, and kind of a distillation of a series of posts he's been doing strategy.  He's gone into the the distinctions between magic bullet and attritional styles of strategy, linear v. parallel, and so on.  All well worth your time and very insightful.  What I particularly liked about this one is that it takes the tactical/strategic dichotomy out of its normal realm of military considerations, and makes you look at it from a new perspective.  Plus, its alternate history thinking, which I am congenitally incapable of resisting.