Meanings
- uncountableThe 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.2 more examples
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 InstituteTaken 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 7Synonyms: haphazardness, stochasticity
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe lack of a strategy; the property of being strategyless.
Origin
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