Abstract
Lider, J. Towards a Modem Concept of Strategy. Cooperation and Conflict, XVI, 1981, 217-235.
Strategy is the key concept in the study of military affairs. The scope of this study depends on the answer to the question how strategy should be interpreted. Should this concept be confined to the most effective way of fighting or should it be extended to include methods of using military force in peacetime? Has the strategy of winning wars to be complemented by the strategy of effective military pressure and coercion and by the strategy of war prevention? Does 'strategy' mean theory, action, or both? This article attempts to discuss the problem in a concise form. First, the extension of the traditional concept of strategy is described. Then some Marxist-Leninist contributions to the analysis of strategy are characterized. The article closes with comments on the modem concept of strategy.
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