Early Modern Period

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Surname Early Modern Period

The Making of Strategy during the Early Modern Era

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Strategies are mainly geared towards fulfilling certain politically-motivated objectives . Strategies are most important in situations where one of the engaging sides has superior advantage such as ownership of latest technologies , machines and other resources such that the opponent can only win the war through application of techniques hence the need for a strategy . Strategies are put in place so as to ensure efficiency is achieved with use

of the available resources with minimum waste , greatest efficiency and success being the main target , is achieved ( Metz 1976 , 127

Luck is seen to play a greater role in the making of strategies during the periods . The genius component is also seen to help a lot in determining whether the strategies so formulated come to implementation Subjective judgments do determine strategic choices to be arrived at . In luck , it is hard to determine the likely outcome of a project or activity in this case a war . It all has to do with taking risks in which case there are very high potential gains just as the re are high potential losses . It proves really hard to accurately tell the chances of military success or failure since the odds are usually higher before going to the war but practical cases have shown otherwise . Luck coupled with hope , played a primary role in seeing America through its operations in Kosovo , and of late , in Afghanistan as Betts...