Exeter, United Kingdom

Strategy and Security

Language: English Studies in English
Subject area: security services
Kind of studies: full-time studies
University website: www.exeter.ac.uk
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Security
Security is freedom from, or resilience against, potential harm (or other unwanted coercive change) from external forces. Beneficiaries (technically referents) of security may be persons and social groups, objects and institutions, ecosystems, and any other entity or phenomenon vulnerable to unwanted change by its environment.
Strategy
Strategy (from Greek στρατηγία stratēgia, "art of troop leader; office of general, command, generalship") is a high-level plan to achieve one or more goals under conditions of uncertainty. In the sense of the "art of the general", which included several subsets of skills including "tactics", siegecraft, logistics etc., the term came into use in the 6th century CE in East Roman terminology, and was translated into Western vernacular languages only in the 18th century. From then until the 20th century, the word "strategy" came to denote "a comprehensive way to try to pursue political ends, including the threat or actual use of force, in a dialectic of wills" in a military conflict, in which both adversaries interact.
Strategy
There webs were spread of more than common size,
And half-starved spiders prey'd on half-starved flies.
Charles Churchill, The Prophecy of Famine: A Scots Pastoral (1763), line 327
Strategy
You can have the greatest strategy in the world but what is the point if no one cares?
Patrick Dixon, Building a Better Business (2005)
Strategy
Those oft are stratagems which errors seem,
Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism (1709), Part I, line 177
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