Tactical.
I admit I detest the word "tactical" as how it is being used out of context so often and exploited by Marketing.
Definition : Characterized by adroitness, ingenuity, or skill., this definition is one I can accept and I do subscribe to.
Q. Why have a Light in the Home, or Business?
A. Mr. Murphy is always looking for a opportunity to screw you up.
Real Life has taught me, Evil likes darkness, and Mr. Murphy just cannot stand to miss an opportunity to screw with folks.
Personally, I ain't got a problem with a Mag-Light, be it a bigger one with multiple batteries, or AA, even single AAA ones.
I - on purpose - set up my Mom, and other folks with the disposable Garrity Lights.
These are Replaced twice a year, at the same time new batteries are installed in Smoke Detectors.
Evil has shown up in my life, at home, and at Office settings, with the power turned off intentionally, or due to Ice Storms, T' storms, Tornadoes, Floods, and Fire.
Heck, I go back to Chrome plated flashlights, with "Regular" Batteries, Glass lens and "intermittent" button, with a "loop" that unfolded at the base of the handle.
Cops carried similar lights back in the day as well.
Fire Fighters did too...
Identify Targets....
Real Life, and more than once for me personally.
My lights were not the current Modern, Heavily advertised lights.
I used a AA Maglight to exit from the 10th floor a Hotel Building and assisted others getting down the stairs.
Fireman coming up, smoke and they saw MY Maglight and these Firefighters - one cannot say enough good things...
"WE identified you because of that light!" - Fireman
It does not matter the emergency lights did not work in that stairwell and "were supposed to", Murphy showed up and these emergency lights did not work.
Flood hits, and I am tied with rope and going in to get a blind lady our of her duplex.
Water is rising, and one has to do what they gotta do...
One of "my kind" and it is dark being cloudy, overcast and rain coming down like crazy...so hard one could not hear...
I get in ( busted glass to do so) and this lady and I cannot really hear one another...
PRACTICED lessons WE and my kind do and she has slipped over her head that Garrity Light and I find her, atop a dresser.
Fire.
My kind Practices some lessons and have some simple, not expensive tools, one being that Garrity light , that is only for Serious Situations, and replaced twice a year.
Kids, do not play with these, or the other items.
Drill is : if the smoke alarm goes off, the Garrity is slipped over head as I have electrical taped a lanyard, the bandanna's go over mouth and nose ("like an outlaw") and door knobs are check, doors felt...Coaches Whisltes are used...other tools...
That light is not only for these folks to see, also to be Identified.
Pre-arranged plans and if a kid, gets out, they go to this spot(s) and and light lets First Responders find them.
In Rural Areas, Fire Depts (Volunteers) know these families and will look in spots and for these lights.
Identifying Targets extends to more than BGs and Guns.
Reality being, the probability of a Serious Situation being Fire, Tornado, Storms and the like - instead of BGs and Guns.
Personal Pet Peeve of mine. Everything is centered around a damn gun!
Folks have Gee-Whiz Guns and Exotic Ammo and Gun Equipment out the rear end...
And not a damn pre-arranged plan, or equipment to deal with Fire.
Baking Soda I can get 2 for $1 at the Dollar Store. I keep a box near my Stove for grease fires.
Yes I have a Quality Fire Extinguisher in the Kitchen, still I know from experience what a 50 cent box of generic baking soda will do for a grease fire on the stove.
The kitchen flashlight I paid $2 for - and it came with batteries.
$2.50 and I can ID something in the kitchen and put out a grease fire.
Electricity went out and I had the Kerosene Lamps I bought for $5 filled with Lamp oil to use in the house.
Gas Stove and cooking Bacon , Biscuits, Eggs, and making coffee for supper.
Neighbor come over, and my fault, I should removed cast iron from stove ,still just turned down fire.
Neighbor comes in, and wind from door opening blew a paper towel to skillet which caught fire...
Lamps, had enough light to allow me to do a "snag skillet with one hand and dump baking soda with the other" maneuver.
Well... tossing soda on my food was an option, but I do Eggs and Bacon really well and I was hungry. I chose to handle this "serious situation" this way. I still had back-up options and tools to deal with my mistake.
Neighbor came over to see if I had some kind of odd battery for a "tactical" flashlight his employer had given him...
I did not, but did have AA and an extra AA Maglight...
No tool is any better than user of said tool.
Identification of targets also means one may need to be Identified by having light on person.
Inova key ring lights for $6 will do this, so will a $5 single AAA Solitare.
I have one light with "tactical" in the name, a Coast LED about the size of a Solitaire that came with 4 extra AG13 batteries. IIRC $9 at Academy.
My EverReady two AAA battery powered LED penlight I paid $6 for at the Auto Parts store, it has a pocket clip and came with the batteries.
This one is similar to the Ray-O-Vac and Everyready two AAA penlights with pocket clips - like Doctors and Nurses use - and I have used one forever.
Most times taking notes while lights are dimmed/off and Presentation on a screen is being done.
Enough light to see what I am doing, not enough to distract others or presentation.
I used one of those to distract a BG in situation once. I tossed it one way, and exited another...
$2 I tossed, still it was the best option and worked.
Strategy & Tactics to me is about thinking and how to go about doing something.
Not what the Marketing Hype says I gotta have.