Importance Of Military Strategy

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The problem in grand strategy is choosing the right instrument and balancing the instruments to achieve the national policy. Military strategy is main element of grand strategy (Alexdra:). The military is divided into operational and tactical level. The military strategy is based on military planning and operation. The military capability and inadequacy can influence the national policy. The politicians plan the military administration of personnel , recruit and train people, logistic, man power for the armed force, money to procure military equipment and all the military materials(extract-4). The incompetent of politician and military command is very harmful to the nation. Military strategy is the application of grand strategy (D&S-19). The military strategy is all about the force development, employment and deployment control by grand strategy. In military strategy is the stage to determine how is the military force deployed, nature of environment , the type of the enemy military force and the possible major challenges(D7S-103). The decision are..........................................

The military force goes to war to protect the state security and national interests to achieve national policy. During military operation such as war or peacetime, the politicians command the military leaders to win the war(Alexndra-). The military leaders conduct or command the military force in the battlefield. In the battlefield is the actually fighting of the two military forces using all the combatant. The military commander is not given national policy but both the politicians and the military realm work together to achieve national policy. Strategy can be affected by failure of military force in the battlefield.(-22) .The military force s...

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...l aspects should be protected against the threat from the outside world. The military force can be deployed to unfavorable terrain , under bad weather condition and desert areas. The country position also protect the invasion from other countries. Military force must be deployed to borders to control illegal foreign immigrant, to the sea or ocean to prevent piracy and prevent other resources such as rhino poaching, depletion of the environment against exotic material etc. Protection of geographical environment is due to historical experience().

iv. Friction, chance and uncertainty war has the Clausewitzian Trio which is Fog, friction and chance that hamper military force. Fog refers to lack of accurate information obtained by intelligence, friction refers to bad weather, mistakes and miscalculation, and chance refers to failure or success on war(D&S-192)

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