The Clausewitz Collection (merged thread)

[Fuchs]

Question: Can you write a manual on Divisional Tactics? If yes, then there is no "operational level." There is Policy, Strategy and Tactics, and only one of those is a "level of war" because it's the "only level."

The snake bites its end. You need to have defined the limit of tactics (thus have decided whether all the stuff others consider to be operational is tactics as you think) to decide whether you can write such a manual. The question does therefore provide no logically coherent test.

You dismiss the separation of tactics from operational level, et you accept the division between strategy and tactics. I suspect you won't be able to justify the latter division and defend it against the same kind of critique you offer against the operational level.
Mater Tzu taught that it was all the same, after all.

Generally, commanding of many is like commanding of a few.

It is a matter of dividing them into groups.