Wiktionary
n. Surveillence of the immediate surroundings using one's senses.
WordNet
n. intelligence that is required for the planning and conduct of tactical operations [syn: combat intelligence]
Usage examples of "tactical intelligence".
His boats had delivered on every mission assigned, savaging the enemy submarine force in a carefully planned ambush, supporting a brilliant special operation, conducting deep-strike missile launches, and, as always, gathering vital tactical intelligence.
By this time, every Team-2 member knew how every other member thought, and so, on exercises where the actual scenario was different from the tactical intelligence they'd been given going in, somehow the team members just adapted, sometimes without words, every trooper knowing what his partner and the others in the team would do, as if they'd communicated by telepathy.
His Dark Star drones had given him all the tactical intelligence he needed.
Complementing the strategic intelligence that the Fellers intercepts were providing was the tactical intelligence from his highly efficient Fernmeldeaufklarung Company under Captain Alfred Seebohm.
That was obvious enough from the way they fought, using a high degree of tactical intelligence even though their yammosk had been jammed.
They used tactical intelligence, but not the strategic kind -- a fine explanation, O'Donnell thought, for the mindlessness of their overall strategy.
They were to be dropped (if the drop had gone perfectly) on the periphery of our entire target and the neodogs were supposed to range outward and provide tactical intelligence to interdiction squads whose business it was to secure the periphery.