Quote Originally Posted by Bob's World View Post
I really don't have a dog in this fight, but to me, when we discuss the operational level of war, it is not how Corps fight; rather it is the scope of the fight that one traditionally assigns a Division, Corps or even an Army, to handle. That scope is often regionally/terrain defined; but could be defined by some functional characteristics as well.

How a Corps fights, well, as Wilf clearly states. That is tactics.
That basically accords with Soviet/Russian doctrine too. Strategy and Operations refered to territorial/geographic expressions within which even an Army or frnt level action was considered tactics whe in contact. I find that Soviet doctrine was much more rigourous in its conceptual usage. Though over-reliance on concepts warps reality knowing what they mean can be an important part of the cognitive cement that binds armies together (unlike SOD! which I think no-one understands outsdie the small psuedo-intelletucal beret wearers who formulated it).