strategylessness
nounEtymology From strategyless + -ness.
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The lack of a strategy; the property of being strategyless.
- The purest form of combat—that which is without conception or strategy, the strategy of strategylessness.2019 April 5 [1991], Ian McDonald, King of Morning, Queen of Day, JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.:
- It is the very absence of strategy—systemic “strategylessness”—that in all likelihood will become the signature of U.S. foreign policy in the years to come.2017 March 2, Wolfgang Seibel, “Donald Trump — Aggravator or Catalyzer of the European Crises?”, in American-German Institute:
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- Taken together, this study provides new insights into the diagnosed political and administrative myopia displayed by the involved actors stemming from a strategylessness inherent to the anti-money laundering system in Germany.2023 September 18, Katharina Maria Eßmeyer, “Abstract”, in Strategylessness by Design: The Failure of German Anti-Money Laundering in the Combat against Organized Crime, page 7:
- Synonyms
- haphazardness, stochasticity