grand tactics  The topic grand tactics is discussed in the
following articles:     • TITLE: tactics (military)     SECTION:
Evolution of the term     ...but over time each has acquired
both a prescriptive and a descriptive meaning. There have also
been attempts to distinguish between minor tactics, the art of
fighting individuals or small units, and grand tactics, a term
coined about 1780 by the French military author Jacques-Antoine-
Hippolyte de Guibert to describe the conduct of major battles.
However, this distinction seems to have been lost...