Wiley: “Strategy is a plan of action designed in order to achieve some end a purpose together with a system of measures for its accomplishment.” With respect to specificity, the split is between the definition’s narrowness-whether strategy is directly or exclusively related to combat and war-as opposed to a broader, general approach which typically alludes to more ambiguous concepts like “power.” Let’s look at some examples (all not cited below are from the aforementioned textbook).
Philosophically, several emphasize scientific design, planning, and a product-based approach to strategy, while others describe a very different process of artful adaptation and dynamic adjustment. The closer you read the more you notice serious differences in philosophy and specificity. The text I used to teach at West Point, Strategy in the Contemporary World ( Fourth Edition), is chock-full of varying versions of “strategy.”Īnd they are not simply re-phrasings of one another. Mothers get them from distant children animals get them from inbound weather and, apparently, I get them from reading definitions of “strategy.”Ĭonfusingly, there are a lot of these definitions to sort through. Ever get the sense something isn’t quite right? A feeling, an inkling, a tremor.
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