Understanding Tactics
1. Statement by Gen A. M. Gray, former Commandant of the Marine Corps, during a ceremony commemorating the anniversary of the groundbreaking for the Marine Corps Research Center, June 20, 1997.
2. Sir William Slim, Defeat into Victory (London: Cassell and Co. Ltd., 1956) pp. 550-551.
3. MCDP 1, Warfighting (June 1997) p. 30. MCDP 1's definition differs from that given in Joint Pub 1-02, Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms: "tactics—1. The employment of units in combat. 2. The ordered arrangement and maneuver of units in relation to each other and/or to the enemy in order to use their full potentialities."
4. Ibid., p. 3.
5. Combat power: "The total means of destructive and/or disruptive force which a military unit/formation, can apply against the opponent at a given time." (Joint Pub 1-02)
6. LtCol G. I. Wilson, "The Gulf War, Maneuver Warfare, and the Operational Art," Marine Corps Gazette (June 1991) pp. 23–24.
7. This example was taken from Joseph H. Alexander, Utmost Savagery; The Three Days of Tarawa (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1995).
