Strategy Strategy Sacred text Category="War"A strategy is a long term plan of action designed to achieve a particular Goal, as differentiated from Tactics or immediate actions with resources at hand. Originally confined to military matters, the word has become commonly used in many disparate fields, such as:

Origins of the word

The word finds its roots in the French stratégie, which is ultimately derived from the Greek stratēgos, which referred to a 'military commander' during the age of Athenian Democracy.

Historic Texts On Strategy

The nature of historic texts differs greatly from area to area, and, while there are some potential parallels between various forms of strategy (noting, for example, the popularity of the Art of War as a business book), each domain generally has its own foundational texts, a brief mention of some of these follows:

See also