Tactics & Strategy - Defined

One of the most important skills you can acquire is the ability to think in both Strategic and Tactical Perspectives.   But let’s define them accurately first. 

 Strategy - Strat·e·gy   Etymology: Greek stratēgia generalship, from stratēgos  Date: 1810 (1) : the science and art of employing the political, economic, psychological, and military forces of a nation or group of nations to afford the maximum support to adopted policies in peace or war (2) : the science and art of military command exercised to meet the enemy in combat under advantageous 2 a : a careful plan or method : a clever stratagem b : the art of devising or employing plans or stratagems toward a goal


 Tactic  - 1tac·tic Greek taktikē, from feminine of taktikos Date: 1640

1 : a device for accomplishing an end
2 : a method of employing forces in combat

According to the noted Prussian military theorist, Karl von Clausewitz, who wrote “On War”, a definitive theoretical text on waging war,    "Strategy belongs primarily to the realm of art. Tactics belongs primarily to the realm of science.” Clausewitz said that "War is a mere continuation of politics by other means."  If so, then can one consider that ‘politics is a mere continuation of war by other means.”  And if it is war, then what is one’s approach against, not an opponent in civil exchange, but rather an enemy?