Strategic war college3/16/2023 ![]() ![]() “Strategy is best understood as the art and science of developing and using the political, economic, socio-psychological, and military powers of the state in accordance with policy guidance to create effects that protect or advance the state’s interests in the strategic environment.” ![]() Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, 2012, page 53. Army War College Guide to National Security Issues Volume 1: Theory of War and Strategy. ![]() Richard Yarger, “The Strategic Appraisal: The Key to Effective Strategy” in J. To examine how so, please consider a definition offered by H. All that said, I believe our War College’s corporate definition of strategy is disabling. That is to say, to some degree everyone sees in others’ expressions what one’s foibles and obsessions dictate, and perhaps mine dictate beyond the safe level of toxicity. After all, every theoretical writing is an inkblot. Perhaps, too, I don’t fully understand what I read, and maybe I am overly influenced by my prejudices. In order to, further on in this article, not come across to the reader as equivocating, let me get the disclaimers out of the way up front: I haven’t poured over the entire range of officially acceptable strategic thought coming out of the Army’s flagship school I understand that pronouncements emanating from articles published by its Strategic Studies Institute have to meet some corporate standards, and that there is yet considerable free-range opinion within what parameters of thought are established and etcetera. How the US Army and the US military in general think about strategy, thinking which is unavoidably influenced by how the word strategy is formally defined, bears on how military institutions will imagine, explain, and prepare ‘landpower’. It has, however, promoted a corporate way of thinking about strategy that may be detrimental to the development of the Army. They are not the opinions, observations, advice or practice of the United States Army or any other part of the United States Government and do not represent or reflect US Government policy, opinion or practice. The opinions, observations and advice in this document are the author’s alone. The War College Definition of Strategy Hurts Our Understanding of Landpower ![]()
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