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  • Same as strategic.

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  • adjective strategic

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  • adjective relating to or concerned with strategy

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Examples

  • Bob, Johnsonville, the best brat, wurst says: strategical is a word that is used only by retardicals who have icicles in their testicles …

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: February 26, 2010 2010

  • It is laid down in German strategical textbooks that the time for making war is not when you have a political cause for it, but when your troops are ready and the enemy is unready; and that to strike the first blow is the best way to declare war.

    My Adventures as a Spy Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baden-Powell of Gilwell 1899

  • Massud Barzani's mother solved the problem between Barazani and Talabani they called the strategical partnership (it is really dividing the Kurdistan wealth as a game).

    OpEdNews 2010

  • Lines of defense are classified as strategical and tactical.

    The Art of War Henri Jomini 1824

  • Owing to these qualities they are utilised for prolonged and searching reconnoitring duties such as strategical reconnaissances as distinct from the hurried and tactical reconnaissances carried out by fleeter machines.

    Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot

  • Bots aren’t “good” or “bad” at any particular kind of strategical thinking - they’re only more or less sophisticated; i.e. they can only account for certain factors.

    Poker Bots on the Rise: A Guest Blog - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007

  • He made his way to the top against all odds, and proved he had political and strategical capabilities.

    Global Voices in English » Israel: Reflections on the Holocaust Memorial Day and Durban II 2009

  • I thought the baton strike was a good strategical tactic to fell the enemy closest to you and create a block to the oncoming hordes thus creating that little bit of space between you and the ‘enemy’.

    G20 police assault verdict SHOCK! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

  • In short, if Plaid drops to third place, and especially if the number of Plaid AMs is diminished, then a continuation of the coalition with Labour would in my view be a strategical error.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • Yet, despite inflicting a tactical and strategical defeat on Germany, pace Mr. Prados, the Allied victory in the west was not a decisive one.

    How the Battle Was Won, if Not Yet the War Alexander Rose 2011

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