In the simplest terms, strategy is a plan of action that
organizes efforts to achieve objectives. The broad and complex
modern context within which the strategist operates, however,
means that simple definitions shed little light on the factors
that make strategy the most fundamental and most difficult of
all military arts. In the modern era, it is much more accurate
and descriptive to consider strategy as a complex
decisionmaking process that connects the ends sought
(objectives) with the ways and means of achieving those ends.