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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Strategy is the term derived from ____
A
Sports
B
politics
C
business
D
military
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The term strategy derives from the Greek strategos, an elected general in ancient Athens. The strategoi were mainly military leaders with combined political and military authority, which is the essence of strategy.

Detailed explanation-2: -The word strategy comes to us from the Greek word, strategos, strictly meaning a general in command of an army ( stratos, army; –ag, to lead).

Detailed explanation-3: -Military strategy is a set of ideas implemented by military organizations to pursue desired strategic goals. Derived from the Greek word strategos, the term strategy, when first used during the 18th century, was seen in its narrow sense as the “art of the general", or “’the art of arrangement” of troops.

Detailed explanation-4: -For an efficient definition of strategy, the following has sufficient merit to serve well enough: “Military strategy is the direction and use made of force and the threat of force for the purposes of policy as decided by politics”.

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