Ace the 2026 Aviation BOLC MDO Challenge – Soar to Success!

In warfare, you move through levels: strategic, operational, and tactical. The middle level, the operational level, is where campaigns are planned and conducted to connect broad strategic objectives with the actual battles and engagements at the tactical level. It focuses on designing and synchronizing campaigns, tempo, and the allocation of forces and resources across a theater to achieve strategic goals. The other options relate to strategy (national or theater) or to individual battles (tactical), rather than to the level that sits between strategy and tactics. So the operational level best fits as a distinct level of warfare.