Nice idea Gobble. Since I'm mostly a gunboater, I think I'm better at Strategy/Tactics than at negotiations. I think I could be a good Minister for War, if a Prime Minister wants to hire me.
@ fasces:
Dejan is right. Tactics' horizon is usually limited within 1 year, rarely 2. It starts with the building phase (what/where to build is tactics!), it involves units movements, their interaction, the analisys of your opponent's possible counter-moves. It usually ends in the autumn retreats phase, when Strategy decides the new goals for the following years. And tactics then restarts. The product of a Tactician work is "The Plan". Bad Tacticians make a plan for a single turn, best can make it for a year or two (cluster of plans based on whatever can happen).
Strategy's horizon is so much wider. It goes through all game long on a different level. Strategist is always wondering what the Main Goal is. So he starts with "How do I win? how do I get 18 SCs?" but, depending on how things are going, the question could turn into "I can't win, how do I get a draw?" or "They're about to defeat me, how can I survive?". His answers involve things like "I should ally with X against Y" or "now is the time to stab K" or "A & B allied are a threat, the Minister for Foreign Affairs should break that alliance with some promise" or "Since our enemies stabbed each other, then our strategy changes". The product of his work are 1) a request to the Minister for Foreign Affairs for Diplomatic goals 2) a request to the Tactician for Military goals.
@Ambassador. I guess you're a wondeful Diplomatic (and your name suggests it, lol). But the idea of splitting Minister for War into two Sea & Land Ministers (2 tacticians? really?) makes me think you're not a wonderful tactician. Perhaps I'd split it into Strategic Affairs and Tactical Affairs. But, probably, the "Strategic Affairs" are what the Prime Minister should do (basically it's what fasces said "Person who gives the general idea of what the country should do. ").