Contrasting it with tactics, which was the art of winning battles, Clause-witz defined strategy as "the art of employment of battles as a means to gain the object in war."2 How to gain the object in war remains a central preoccupation of contemporary strategic thinking, but it is ...
new tactics and experience decisions, so as to combine qualitative and quantitative analysis, improve the single-loop decision-making speed of our own OODA loop, expand the breadth of parallel decision-making, and seize cognitive initiative by using speed to defeat slowness...
Imitating the currently visible tactics of rivals put Western businesses into a perpetual catch-up trap. One by one, companies lost battles and came to see surrender as inevitable. Surrender was not inevitable, of course, but the attack was staged in a way that disguised ultimate intentions and...