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Cavanaugh clearly was oriented on explicating on his role as a military strategist. My proposed changes would offset the perception that this is a military officerâs definition of what strategy is and what strategists do, or the notion that only military strategists are truly strategic. Thus, my counter-proposal:
What is a strategist? We have many definitions for grand or national strategy, but despite having a community in the United States defined as âstrategists,â there is little understanding of who our strategists are, and what they do. At the always thoughtful War Council Blog, Army Major Matt Cavanaugh tackled this important question. He recognizes, as did Hew Strachan, that the word âstrategyâ is so overused that itâs lost all meaning. Cavanaugh decided to promote a discussion about what strategists actually do by laying out a concise but quite potent Mission Statement: