Strategy

• Strategy is the use of engagement for the

object of war.
(Carl von Clausewitz)
• Strategy is the practical adaptation of the
means placed at a general’s disposal to the
attainment of the object in war.
(Von Moltke)
• Strategy is the art of distributing and applying
military means to fulfill the ends of policy.
(Liddell Hart)
• Strategy is the art of the dialectic of force or,
more precisely, the art of the dialectic of two
opposing wills using force to resolve their
dispute.
(Andre Beaufre)
• Strategy is ultimately about effectively
exercising power.
(Gregory D. Foster)
• Strategy is a plan of action designed in order
to achieve some end; a purpose together with
a system of measure for its accomplishment.
(J. C. Wylie)
• Strategy is a process, a constant adaptation to the
shifting conditions and circumstances in a world
where chance, uncertainty, and ambiguity
dominate.
(W. Murray and M. Grimslay)
• Strategy must now be understood as nothing less
than the overall plan for utilizing the capacity for
armed coercion – in conjunction with economic,
diplomatic, and psychological instruments of
power – to support foreign policy most effectively
by overt, covert and tacit means. (Robert Osgood)