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The History Of Uk Cyber Strategy

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2.2 History of UK Cyber Strategy The history of strategy in military has expanded as technology emerges. Before the 18th Century, the concept of warfare, exist over two levels: strategy and tactics, in modern military leadership, the separation of military and political leadership led to two levels of strategy: grand strategy and military strategy. Grand strategy is the government’s strategy. It sets out the government’s policy on war and peace at a national level. Basil Liddell wrote that grand strategy coordinates and directs all the resources of the nation(s) to the attainment of the political objective of war. The British defence doctrine of 2008 published the hierarchy of command establishing four levels of strategy namely; Grand Strategic – Is the National political aim in peace and war for Her Majesty’s government. The Military Strategy – The strategy of the military of Defence stems from their responsibility within the Grand strategy in developing, sustaining and assigning of military forces and assets to support government policy and achieve the goals of the grand strategic. It operates on two levels namely the Operational Strategy which is the Permanent Joint Headquarters (PJHQ) strategy guiding the use of military forces to achieve the objective of the MOD and Tactical which is the field commanders’ directive for Land, Sea and Air in achieving the Operational goals. The grand strategy was renamed the National Strategy but its definition remains ‘Co-Ordinated

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