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The concept of military strategy can be traced back to the Greek city-states. Modern characterizations of strategy both in business and in a military context generally do not provide much insight as to how one might actually go about crafting and executing a good strategy. What can be usefully said is that good strategies invariably have three elements: an insightful diagnosis of the problem or challenge; a guiding policy to address the challenge; and a set of coherent actions designed to carry out the guiding policy. Nonetheless, even good strategies can fail because they are guesses about how the future will unfold, and the future is not predictable.
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Watts, B.D. (2016). Military Strategy. In: Augier, M., Teece, D. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94848-2_495-1
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