ABSTRACT
As an instance, Sherman’s march to the sea through Georgia during the American Civil War was a bold strategy for which the tactics that followed were quite seamless with the strategy. In brief, looking at three cases the Nile, Trafalgar and Jutland shows the need to draw on the real tactical lessons of the past, not the super-ficial ones. Nelson is rightly celebrated think of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square in London but his legend became bigger than reality, a travesty of itself, and almost ended in disaster for Britain 110 years later in the Battle of Jutland. There are two key aspects of the rather complicated story of Jutland to look at: first, the clear differences it illustrates between strategy and tactics and, second, the trap of the cult of personality and the search for glory. Japanese strategy at the start of the naval war was to gain territory to form an island chain protecting the home islands.
