ABSTRACT
This chapter summarizes the evolution of strategic thought. The term strategy has been extended to its utmost in the social sciences and even in everyday speech. One speaks of the strategy of a firm, the strategy of development, the strategy of devaluation. The numerous questions concerning relations between allies, relations between enemies, and the use of force commanded the attention of the strategists, now no longer able to restrict themselves to the narrow meaning of the term strategy. Analysts of nuclear problems have become the diplomatic advisers of the Prince, to the glory or misfortune of Princes and analysts. In 1961 the analysts arrived at the White House with President Kennedy; at that time they worked out various deterrent schemes and heatedly discussed the strategic or diplomatic doctrines that can be derived from theoretical elaboration. Being reactionary and adventuristic by nature, the policies of imperialist countries produce a military strategy founded on adventuristic calculations.
