Stratagem vs. Strategy
Stratagemnoun
A tactic or artifice designed to gain the upper hand, especially one involving underhanded dealings or deception.
Stratagemnoun
An artifice or trick in war for deceiving the enemy; hence, in general, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination.
Stratagemnoun
a maneuver in a game or conversation
Stratagemnoun
an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade;
Strategynoun
The science and art of military command as applied to the overall planning and conduct of warfare.
Strategynoun
A plan of action intended to accomplish a specific goal.
Strategynoun
The use of advance planning to succeed in politics or business.
Strategynoun
The science of military command, or the science of projecting campaigns and directing great military movements; generalship.
Strategynoun
The use of stratagem or artifice.
Strategynoun
an elaborate and systematic plan of action
Strategynoun
the branch of military science dealing with military command and the planning and conduct of a war
Strategy
Strategy (from Greek στρατηγία stratēgia, ) is a general plan to achieve one or more long-term or overall goals under conditions of uncertainty. In the sense of the , which included several subsets of skills including military tactics, siegecraft, logistics etc., the term came into use in the 6th century C.E. in Eastern Roman terminology, and was translated into Western vernacular languages only in the 18th century.
