User:What is Strategy?

The earliest manifestations of strategy was with great warrior leaders including Sun Tzu, Hannibal and Alexander the Great while the most modern military leader and theorist would include Clausewitz.

The link between military strategist and strategic theory and practice is not a tenuous one as one might think because for one thing purpose,the choice of strategy to win a battle and the implementation of it, in other words deciding which tactical tools to use to win a battle are critical elements of modern day strategic thinking.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. Sun Tzu Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/sun_tzu.html#uvhtcEZM5yx6DyTh.99