A person who is skilled at planning tactics

Usage examples of tactician.

Lynn, and while yet his own party scarcely ventured to hope anything from his leadership, Lord George proved himself an orator and a debater, a party tactician, and an energetic, vigilant, intelligent chief of opposition.

And in another five or six years, Diamato calculated, he might be as good a tactician as the Citizen Captain, assuming she and Hamer kept hammering away at him hard enough.

The astragal of Aeneas the Tactician, in which yarn passing through holes representing letters carried the secret message, is the oldest known semagram.

It was only then that Zephyr realized - with her sketchy knowledge of the roots of the Greek-based Citizen Classnames - that of course Strategos was a blend-word, the old name for a general, now carrying the new weight of later derivations: strategic adviser, battle tactician, master planner.

But like amaster tactician, Tasaio would turn the blunder intovictory.

Some of the tacticians had wanted to try to get the entire fleet into battle range for a surprise attack in power.

Colonel Ma-gruder was the most senior officer in time of service, and the most experienced tactician, but there were Kuwaitis more senior in rank--all three brigades were commanded by brigadier generals--and it was their country.

But I can assure you that the defense team takes pride and pleasure in constructing a difficult problem for the Fleet tacticians.

Bold, decisive, and brave beyond all question, be was generally acknowledged to be the greatest tactician in the known Universe-as much by his enemies in the League as by Imperial colleagues.

For Warren, though he had never made any bones that he considered himself a superlative officer and a clever tactician, was not fond of the hazards of actual line duty.

The Sioux medicine man Sitting Bull was indulging in war talk, and was aided and abetted by two powerful warriors, skilled tacticians and great leadersCrazy Horse and Gall.

Fifty-three-year-old General Baris lost most of his right leg in the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, burned off in a tank explosion, but he stayed in government to serve his country as best he could, rising through the ranks from onion-peeler and tailor to intelligence coordinator to tactician to presidential military adviser.

Without wanting to embarrass you, you've demonstrated rather conclusively that you're one of our better tacticians, Your Grace.

Before leaving Eclipse, Ulaha and the tacticians had estimated that the mission's likelihood of success would drop 2 percent with every hour of duration, which meant that the strike team's chances had to be approaching zero by now.

And since these were precisely the people who were considered too valuable to risk outside, the ground troops suddenly found themselves on their own, without senior officers, tacticians, or clan liaisons … or heavy weapon support, intersquad and long-range communications, or defensive sensor cover.