A strategy's a plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal. The word strategy has military connotations, because it derives from the Greek word for army. Strategy's different from tactics. In military terms, tactics's concerned with the conduct of an engagement while strategy's concerned with how different engagements are linked. In other words, how a battle's fought's a matter of tactics: whether it should be fought at all's a matter of strategy. Strategies in game theory In game theor… (More on Strategies)