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Strategic alliance
A strategic alliance is a voluntary agreement between two or more legally separate companies that share risk, returns, control, and some operational integration to pursue shared goals, each remaining independent.
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT): US-Soviet negotiations 1969-1979 producing the ABM Treaty, the 1972 Interim Agreement freezing 1,054/1,618 ICBM launchers, and the unratified 1979 SALT II treaty with 2,400/2,250 ceilings, observed until 1985.
Strategic asset allocation
Strategic asset allocation is the setting of a long-term policy mix of asset classes, with target weights and ranges, that an investor rebalances to meet return and risk goals.
Strategic authority
Strategic authorities are the new tier of local government in England created by the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026, typically combined authorities, combined county authorities, or the GLA, in foundation, mayoral, and established mayoral levels.
Strategic authority mayor
Strategic authority mayor, also called strong mayor, is a city chief executive with consolidated powers to appoint department heads, draft the budget, and veto council legislation, mainly in mayor-council governments, distinct from council-manager cities where the mayor is largely ceremonial.
Strategic bomber
A strategic bomber is a long-range, heavy-payload military aircraft designed to strike an adversary's infrastructure, industry, and bases far beyond the battlefield, carrying nuclear or high-yield conventional weapons.
Strategic bombing
Strategic bombing, or strategic bombardment, is the use of air power against an enemy's home territory, industry, and will to continue a war rather than its field armies.
Strategic bombing during World War II
Allied strategic bombing campaign of WWII: RAF night area bombing and USAAF daylight precision attacks on Germany and Japan, from the Butt report and Casablanca directive to Hamburg, Dresden, the oil offensive, and the Tokyo firebombing, with USSBS effectiveness findings.
Strategic business unit
A strategic business unit (SBU) is a semi-autonomous unit of a diversified company with its own competitors and profit accountability, formalized at General Electric around 1971.
Strategic communication
Strategic communication: planned, insight-based, evaluated communication used by governments, militaries, and organizations to reach defined goals; closely tied to public diplomacy, strategic narratives, and UK GovS 011 practice.
Strategic Defense Initiative
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), nicknamed "Star Wars," was a US research program announced by President Ronald Reagan in 1983 to develop defenses against nuclear-armed ballistic missiles.
Strategic Hamlet Program
The Strategic Hamlet Program was a 1962 counterinsurgency scheme of the Republic of Vietnam. It concentrated rural villagers into fortified settlements to isolate them from the Viet Cong.
Strategic human resource planning
Strategic human resource planning aligns an organization's long-term business strategy with its future workforce supply and demand, so the right people with the right skills are available at the right times.
Strategic lawsuit against public participation
SLAPP (strategic lawsuit against public participation): retaliatory litigation used to silence critics through defense costs and damage threats. Term coined by Pring and Canan; countered by US state anti-SLAPP statutes and the EU Anti-SLAPP Directive 2024/1069.
Strategic management
Strategic management, also known as corporate strategy, is the continuous process by which an organization's leaders formulate, implement, and evaluate decisions that set its long-term direction.
Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement
Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement (SMDA), Pakistan–Saudi Arabia bilateral defence pact signed 17 September 2025 in Riyadh; aggression against one is aggression against both; basis for the 2026 Makkah trilateral pact with Türkiye.
Strategic National Stockpile
Strategic National Stockpile (SNS), also National Pharmaceutical Stockpile: HHS/ASPR-managed multibillion-dollar U.S. inventory of drugs, vaccines, PPE, and ventilators for public health emergencies, created 1999, deployable within 12 hours.
Strategic Petroleum Reserve (India)
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is India's government-held underground crude oil storage program, run by ISPRL, with 5.33 MMT of Phase I capacity covering about 9.5 days of crude requirement.
Strategic Petroleum Reserve (United States)
The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is the federal emergency crude-oil stockpile in Gulf Coast salt caverns; ~394 million barrels at end-2024, largest government-owned reserve, created by the 1975 EPCA.
Strategic planning
Strategic planning is a leadership process in which an organization defines where it is now, where it needs to be in three to five years, and how to get there.
Strategic sealift ships
Strategic sealift ships, also called Maritime prepositioning ships, are cargo vessels that move military equipment and supplies across oceans, carrying over 90 percent of cargo when the United States deploys forces.
Strategic sourcing
Strategic sourcing is the structured, collaborative process of analyzing an organization's spending to leverage purchasing power and reduce costs, typically covering upstream work through contract award.
Strategic trade policy
Strategic trade policy is trade policy, such as export or production subsidies, that shifts profits from foreign to domestic firms in an international oligopoly, a concept from Spencer and Brander's 1983 and 1985 papers.
Strategic voting
Strategic (tactical) voting: casting a ballot for a second-preferred candidate or party because it has a better chance of winning; distinct from sincere voting, measured via surveys, and unavoidable under Gibbard-Satterthwaite.
Strategic voting in cardinal systems
Strategic voting in cardinal systems is the study of tactical behavior under rated rules like approval and range voting, where strategic voters give only extreme grades.
Strategies of the Warring States
Strategies of the Warring States (戰國策) is a Han-dynasty compilation of the persuasions and stratagems of the Warring States period's itinerant political strategists, assembled by Liu Xiang.
Strategist
Strategist: a person who shapes strategy for armies, firms, or governments, from the Greek strategos (army leader, Athens c. 508–7 BC); works through strategic thinking, scenario planning, foresight, and bias-aware decision processes.
Stratego
Stratego (Stratego, by Jumbo/Hasbro) is a two-player hidden-rank board wargame on a 10x10 board with 40 pieces per side; capture the enemy flag. Created by Mogendorff, trademarked 1942, US release 1961.
Strategos (στρατηγός)
Strategos (στρατηγός, plural strategoi), Greek "general"; in Athens a board of ten annually elected generals (by 487/6 BCE), the only elected magistrates, later a title for federal magistrates, Hellenistic governors, and Byzantine theme commanders.
Strategos of the nome
The strategos of the nome (Greek: strategos) was the military and civil governor of a nome in Ptolemaic Egypt, attested in papyri from the 3rd century BC.