ABSTRACT
Tactics requires weapons for conducting combat at a shallow depth; operational art needs weapons with greater range and power; weapons intended for strategic use are practically unlimited in range and power. Strategic nuclear weapons, moreover, can exert a major influence on tactical operations. With nuclear weapons it may be possible for the strategic command to accomplish its missions before operational and tactical weapons can be employed. The formulation of and correct solution to the problem of the correlation of strategy, operational art and tactics, a solution in consonance with reality, is of great importance for military theory and practice. Strategy, operational art and tactics, as component parts of military art, possess their own peculiar features and the capability of independent development, and yet at the same time certain common traits characteristic of military art as a whole are inherent in them.
