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Strategy
is a long term
plan
on what to do to achieve a certain
goal
. Today, the word "strategy" is in common use; people might talk about "business strategy", for example. However, it is a word which was first used by the
military
. It comes from an
ancient Greek
word for the most important leader who made all the big decisions for the rest of the soldiers. In other words, this leader was the highest
general
of the
country
.
[1]
When talking about the near future, people often use the word
tactics
.
Military theorist
Carl von Clausewitz
said "tactics is the art of using troops in battle; strategy is the art of using battles to win the war".
[2]
The distinction between strategy and
tactics
applies to any
planning
which might be done against an
enemy
or opponent. Strategy is what we broadly intend to do to reach our long-term goal or
objective
. Tactics is the detailed steps which are used as our progress is opposed by the opponent. For this reason, tactics are short-scale and easy to change. Strategy, on the other hand, is changed as little as possible. It may be that our goal simply cannot be reached. In that case, a search goes on for a new goal and a new or adjusted strategy. Often, in war,
chess
or business, roughly the same tactics are still used to get to a different goal.
Negotiation
is another area where the distinction between strategy and tactics is especially clear.
[3]
- ↑
Wragg, David W. (1973).
A Dictionary of Aviation
(first ed.). Osprey. p.
251
.
ISBN
9780850451634
.
- ↑
Michiko Phifer,
A Handbook of Military Strategy and Tactics
(New Delhi: Vij Books India Private Limited, 2012), p. 1
- ↑
Schelling, Thomas C.1960.
The strategy of conflict
. Harvard University Press, especially chapter 2: An essay on bargaining.
- Clausewitz, Carl von. 1989.
On War
, trans. Michael Howard and Peter Paret. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press.
- Gray, Colin S. 1999.
Modern Strategy
. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.
- Liddell Hart, Basil. H. 1967.
Strategy
. New York: Praeger.
- Luttwak, Edward. 2001.
Strategy: the logic of war and peace
. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press.
- Sun Tzu. 1963.
The Art of War
. trans. Samuel B. Griffith. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.
- Watson, John 1998.
Secrets of modern chess strategy: advances since Nimzowitsch
. Gambit, London.