The many dimensions of strategy
Singapore Armed Forces2022
Magazines
Total copies: 1
In this essay, the author discusses the various dimensions of strategy. He examines Clausewitz’s five elementsof strategy in his seminal work On War. He also explores Colin Gray’s 17 Dimensions and Michael Howard’s FourDimensions of Strategy. The author then studies the queson that some dimensions may be more fundamentalthan others in securing victory. He suggests that all the above dimensions were interactively in play and that no oneor two dimensions can guarantee success although culture, identified as a dimension, can manifest itself in alldimensions. Finally, the author concludes that we will have to prepare for conflicts with these dimensions ofstrategy to improve our future strategic performance.
Singapore, 2022
11p.
Monthly, Jan 2022
English
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