ABSTRACT
Strategy is out of fashion, at least in a military sense. First, the term “strategy” has been subject to inflation. Where as it used to be a concept to describe the overall military plan of war, now it is used to signify a more general approach, such as a “strategy of freedom” and a “strategy for policy,” terms derived from US and British government circles (Strachan 2005: 33). Not only has the term itself been robbed of its original meaning, but it has also been argued that strategy itself might not be really possible, because “what happens in the gap between policy objectives and war outcomes is too complex and unpredictable to be manipulated to a specified end” (Betts 2000). It is too difficult to influence for a rational political end and therefore also impossible as a subject of study.
