ground plan vs tactics

ground plan

noun
  • Framework or pattern. 

  • Hypothetical ancestor of a clade. 

  • Floorplan. 

  • A diagram showing set layout. 

tactics

noun
  • A system of mode or procedure. 

  • The military science that deals with achieving the objectives set by strategy. 

  • The employment and ordered arrangement of forces in relation to each other. 

How often have the words ground plan and tactics occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )