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'. 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. Military strategy deals with the planning and conduct of campaigns, the movement and disposition of forces, and the deception of the enemy.
Derived from the Greek word strategos, the term strategy, when it appeared in use during the 18th century, was seen in its narrow sense as the 'art of the general', or ''the art of arrangement' of troops. Military strategy is a set of ideas implemented by military organizations to pursue desired strategic goals.
