A strategy is a plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal. Strategy deals with the how part rather than the what. The word strategy has military connotations, because it derives from the Greek word for general. Strategy is distinct from tactics. In military terms, tactics is concerned with the conduct of an engagement while strategy is concerned with how different engagements are linked. In other words, how a battle is fought is a matter of tactics: the terms that it's fought on and w… (More on Strategy)