Grand strategies link means to ends

A Grand Strategy:

• is a long-term plan (or doctrine, or course of action) that links the means (including resources and policies) of achieving an objective with its ends
• Accurately assesses the complex global environment
• Is realistic about goals
• Is efficient in execution
• Is comprehensive

Successful grand strategies—the long-term doctrines that link means to ends thus leverage a whole country’s resources, public and private. They accurately assess the complex global environment, are realistic about goals, and are efficient in execution. They must also be comprehensive.

source: Connectography – Khanna (2016)

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see also:

• The kernel of a good strategy includes three things