What is military strategy?
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A prudent idea or set of ideas for employing the instruments of national power in a synchronized and integrated fashion to achieve theater, national, and/or multinational objectives.
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First, some definitions....\n\nWhen a company needs to do something to fix a short-term issue that's called Tactical.\n\nWhen a company is thinking say, how it can add £20m to it's annual profits by say adding a new product line, that's strategy - it's about thinking long term about growth and change.\n\nSo Strategic and Broad Thinking is all about seeing the big picture - it's about knowing where everything slots together at a high level - not how individual jobs are done in the company.
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One who utilizes the systematic use of violence and intimidation to achieve political objectives, while disguised as a civilian non-combatant. The use of a civilian disguise while on operations exempts the perpetrator from protection under the Geneva Conventions, and consequently if captured they are liable for prosecution as common criminals.\nwww.aeroflight.co.uk/definitions.htm\n\n\nhttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&oi=defmore&defl=en&q=define:Terrorist\n\nThe exact definition of terrorism is highly controversial. According to one of the primary working definitions, it is the unconventional use of violence against civilians for political gain. It is a strategy of using coordinated attacks that fall outside the laws of war commonly understood to represent the bounds of conventional warfare (see also unconventional warfare).
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Attrition is never a GOOD strategy to use.  However, at times it can emerge as the ONLY strategy.  Aircraft at that time were not heavily equiped.  At the beginning of the war, "bombers" consisted of dropping a handgrenade in a glass jar.  To be frank, aircraft lacked the destructive power to do much more than significantly interupt ground operations.  Artillery rained in as the kings of destructive power on the battlefield, and even today you sometimes hear that title STILL used for Arty brigades.  At the same time, tanks hadn't come out yet, the ones that did DURING the war were woefully innadequate.  Several armies started WWI with mounted cavalry still in use.  The invention of the machine gun, however, prevented any successful infantry or cavalry charge from being capable of crossing the "no mans land."  This meant that the only means of employing military power demanded trench warfare (which is about how warfare runs whenever defensive capabilities of both sides outweigh the attacking capabilities of each side).  Attrition meant massive logistical problems and the crumpling of the axis powers was due indirectly to the loss of life, but tied much more intimately to the loss of industry.
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Self defense.  Defending others.  Defending your country.
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Strategy is the large scale goal you wish to accomplish (e.g. Become a Millionaire).  Tactics are the individual steps you are going to take to achieve that goal (e.g. Got to College, Study Chemistry, Invent something cool, marry money, etc..).\n\nThankx.
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Deterrence theory is a defensive strategy developed after World War I and used throughout the Cold War. It also figures somewhat in the current War on Terrorism. Under the strategy, a government builds up or maintains military forces and weapons so that other powers will not attack it in fear of a larger retaliation. John Foster Dulles elaborated that “The heart of the problem is how to deter attack. This... requires that a potential aggressor be left in no doubt that he [or she] would... suffer damage outweighing any possible gains from aggression.”[1] Deterrence is viewed by some as the opposite of appeasement, where an expansionist government is allowed to absorb some territory to reach a negotiated settlement. (See Munich Agreement) Deterrence can be based on either WMD's, conventional weapons strength, or both.
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what do you mean by strategy? you know that the final solution refers to the extermination of all jews in germany occupied europe. They first tried to starve them to death in ghettos, then working them to death in concentration camps, and finally devised ways to just kill them without any just reason. Some methods were firing squads, deaths by scientific experimentation, and finally (the final solution) death by gassing. Those were some dark days. The apocolypse.
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Defense, being a superpower has the major economical factors of meaning large army.\n\nNow for this, other thigns suffer, such as Health and Education, meaning that as a whole the society will stagnate as new ideas can't spread through education and Health is the way you keep people around to remember the old.
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The planning, development, construction, and utilization of physical structures for the protection of military materials, manpower, and resources.
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Not really a question...\n\n\nMy motto: \nIf you dont' stand behind our troops, \nfeel free to stand in front of them.
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Strength of the military plays a key role, but determination is equally important.  If the soldiers aren't focused on their missions and determined to win, victory can't be assured.
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Discipline is the military's game!\n\n\nMy friend you don't understand how the world in general and the military world in particular work.  One way to think about systems like the military is to understand a bit of game theory.  All games have freedoms, boundaries and purposes.  Freedoms are what you can do; boundaries what you can't do AND what you must do; purposes, the aims or goals you're trying to accomplish.\n\nIn the military, the primary game is 'discipline.'  Discipline is the ability and desire to follow orders immediately regardless of who gave the order.  Their name, intelligence, character, looks, creed, color, education, etc. don't matter.  Only their rank or seniority count.  It's acknowledged that there just isn't time or excuse for argument, this isn't your mother or your teacher this is your superior speaking. \n\nUnder combat conditions, discipline is often the difference between life and death.  (I know, I know, if the person giving the orders is a fool . . . following orders can mean instantaneous death) but that seems to be a chance the military is willing to risk for the greater purpose of ultimate victory) And how is discipline, this loyalty to one's unit, to the chain of command, and to the army in general created?  Glad you asked.\n\nIn boot camp, the recruit is torn down as an individual and generally only given praise as his accomplishments (shined shoes, sharp bunk, clean locker, marching in step, etc.) reflect upon making his unit more effective.  The tools for this breakdown and the eventual building up that follows it are the items that all recruit share (his body, his clothing, lockers, bunks, movement as a group, early classes, and hair in particular:  hair is a huge symbol of the differences between civillian 'scum' LOL and your trusted military friends) in common.  The recruit loses his identity when his hair is removed and he becomes just another cog in the machine indistinguishable from all other in most important ways.  Then only achieved rank allows him to move up the ladder in the discipline game -- gives him the right to make some of the calls.  \n\nYou show two things in your questioning:  a real lack of education and a real lack of appreciation for the nature and necessity of military discipline. I have the feeling that a lot of soldiers or sailors more committed to the service might not want to share a foxhole or call you shipmate.  I got out of the Navy myself as early as I honorably could because I didn't like the 24-7 lifestyle and the thought that my life might ultimately be in the hands of an idiot.  However, while I was in: I had many wonderful experiences, saw a lot of the world, and made wonderful friends.  I never, however had the outlook on discipline that you're displaying.  The military is NOT for you.
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That's a tough one; infantry tactics underwent a major paradigm shift after the introduction of the Maxim Machine Gun at the close of the 19th century.\n\nPrior to that, it was essentially (and this is VERY simplified) fire volley, fire volley, advance in a line, and bayonet everything not running away.
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mixed strategy means that both players choose their actions (rows/columns of matrix) randomly, but with some known probability.  \n\nStrategy is defined by those probabilies, and then regular NE definition applies - strategy of each player is best response to what everybody else is doing (i.e. a player can't improve their expected payoff by changing probabilities)
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Reconnaissance is a preliminary survey to gain information;  especially   : an exploratory military survey of enemy territory.
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Probability, most likely, beating the odds, or shall we look to Murphy for an answers?  I say, we look to the tenets of Murphy, namely:\n\n1, The enemy invariably attacks on two occasions:\n-when they're ready.\n-when you're not.\n\n2. Anything you do can get you killed, including nothing.\n\n3. Professional soldiers are predictable; the world is full of dangerous amateurs. \n\n4. Military Intelligence is a contradiction. \n\n5. It's not only predicted that things will go wrong, its mandated by entropy and the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics.