This fresh analysis of the meaning of strategy by retired Swedish naval officer Lars Wedin was first published earlier this year in the Journal of the Royal Swedish Academy for War Sciences.
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‘If strategy is done badly, humans can die in large numbers.’1
Strategy is, as this quote shows, a serious business. Yet, the word ‘strategy’ is used in so many contexts that it risks losing its meaning. In the Swedish 2004 ‘White Paper’ on the future of its defence forces the word is used 61 times—but not once either in the meaning of ‘grand strategy’ or of ‘military strategy’. However, this is exactly the meaning of strategy in this article.
There are many definitions on strategy. The original term, in its modern sense, was coined by Paul Gédéon Joly de Maizeroy in 1771:
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