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Delivering the passes and treasure to Bellomont was, therefore, the sensible thing to do.

All in all, this made him the best possible ally and entry point into the system to prove Kidd’s innocence, given that proving the legality of Kidd’s captures would have entitled him to his share of the expedition profits. Not only was Lord Bellomont one of these backers, he was the Governor of New York. Furthermore, proving his innocence would require the goodwill of powerful allies, the most obvious of which were the powerful financial backers of his privateering adventure. If he were to prove his innocence from the piracy accusations, he had to ensure that the French passes (the only documents capable of doing so) were safely delivered to the proper authorities. Here is the set of strategic objectives (and their interrelations) that Kidd seems to have adopted that is, his strategic map: Captain Kidd’s Strategic map

This is the type of situation where one can certainly use a well-designed strategy. If he was captured, he was likely to be sacrificed without a fair trial. The English, Dutch, and Portuguese navies would capture or destroy him on sight. However, Kidd had in his possession the French passes presented to him by those ships, which made the captures legal (at least technically), and thus constituted his proof of innocence against the piracy accusations. The accusation of piracy stemmed from having captured two ships (the Quedagh being one of them), which led to an immense diplomatic and political upheaval.

There, he learned that he and his crew had been declared pirates and were to be arrested.

In March 1699, after a years-long voyage as a privateer, Captain Kidd found himself in the Caribbean commanding a captured, undermanned, treasure-laden vessel (the Quedagh Merchant). Let us first set up the context, and then clarify the concepts. A Pirate's take on Strategy vs TacticsĪre strategy and tactics really different concepts, or just different levels of the same thing? If different, in what do they differ? Should they be handled differently? The goal of this blog-post is to describe strategy and tactics from the point of view of the Captain of a pirate ship, in the hope that the analogy will be sticky enough to allow remembering the concepts the next time this topic comes up. Tactics is one of the most written-about topics in business, but most business books seem to explain it in ways that hinder both the clarity of thought and the establishment of good conceptual frameworks.