military strategy
use of force or threat of violence focused for political purposes
AI overview
Military strategy is the planning and use of armed force—or the threat of it—to achieve political goals. It matters because how nations decide to deploy their military power can determine the outcome of conflicts and shape international relations.
AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.
Article
Military strategy is a set of ideas implemented by military organizations to pursue desired strategic goals. Derived from the Greek word strategos, the term strategy, when first used during the 18th century, was seen in its narrow sense as the "art of the general", or "the art of arrangement" of troops. and deals with the planning and conduct of campaigns.
The father of Western modern strategic studies, Carl von Clausewitz (1780–1831), defined military strategy as "the employment of battles to gain the end of war." B. H. Liddell Hart's definition put less emphasis on battles, defining strategy as "the art of distributing and applying military means to fulfill the ends of policy". Hence, both gave the preeminence to political aims over military goals.