1.
[syn: scheme, strategy]
2. the branch of military science dealing with military command and the planning and conduct of a war;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Strategy \Strat"e*gy\, n. [Gr. ?: cf. F. strat['e]gie. See
Stratagem.]
1. The science of military command, or the science of
projecting campaigns and directing great military
movements; generalship.
[1913 Webster]
2. The use of stratagem or artifice.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
strategy
n 1: an elaborate and systematic plan of action [syn: scheme,
strategy]
2: the branch of military science dealing with military command
and the planning and conduct of a war