Thinking About Greek Strategy
Dr. Tassos Symeonidis
(RIEAS Academic Advisor)
Copyright: Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 30 August 2020
Note: The article reflects the opinion of the author and not necessarily the views of the Research Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS)
Those who have spent years watching Turkey’s attempts to create a fete accompli in the Aegean, and Greece’s rather numb reactions stressing imaginary “red lines” that may be not crossed and other such figures of speech (not to forget appeals to the EU and NATO for ‘solidarity’ that never really materializes), have become skeptical of using the term “strategy.” B.H. Liddell Hart, one of the most prolific and influential strategic theorists of the 20th Century, defined strategy as “the art of distributing and applying military means to fulfill the ends of policy.”... Read more