Has technology made strategy obsolete? It has been said that “technological advances in warfare have made strategy less and less relevant.” This is not the case; strategy actually becomes more important with the development of more sophisticated military technology. First, the links between strategy and technology must be clearly defined. There have been many different views on what actually constitutes strategy. If one were to compare Sun Tzu's concepts of strategy and compare them to those of Clausewitz, it would be clear that the two define strategy very differently. Sun Tzu saw strategy as a much larger problem than Clausewitz. He believed that a comprehensive strategy involving political alliances, disinformation, intelligence, and strategic planning was the key to what he saw as the pinnacle of military victory; win the war without ever having to fight. Clausewitz had a much narrower view of strategy, which could more accurately be described as tactics. Clausewitz believed in the supremacy of direct military conflict as the only arena for states to resolve their differences and satisfy their ambitions. He then focused on how best to win the war, believing that war was inevitable. So it is clear that although both men wrote on the theme of war, they focused on different levels of war, Sun Tzu focused on strategy, or grand strategy, while Clausewitz focused on the tactical level , or operational strategy. Technology is a whole different ballpark than the closely related subjects of tactics and strategy. Technology is the tool with which war is fought. These can be not only mechanical instruments, but also nuclear, chemical and biological tools. Technology is an ever-evolving and ever-improving element of warfare that, throughout history, has continually improved the efficiency with which humanity can kill one another. Technology Strategy Tactics The key to understanding the problem is understanding how the three elements, technology, tactics and strategy, relate to each other and, more specifically, how changes in one area will lead to changes in the other. Technology is at the heart of the entire process. A requirement is identified and a weapon or weapon system is created to meet that requirement. Once this was done, the military leader... middle of paper ...... his Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) or "Star Wars" plan that ultimately broke the economically weaker USSR . Currently, the American army is moving towards the development of a strategic anti-missile system; Recent successful tests of this new technology raise the specter of a return to the winnable war scenario. These new technologies have, like all technologies, been developed to definitively and directly eliminate the threat generated by the initial development of nuclear strike capability. The question that now arises is: will this technology once again change the strategic direction of the economic domain in favor of the military domain? Technology has not made strategy obsolete. Certain military technological advances, which continually reshape the tactical domain, have succeeded, through the magnitude of their impact, in going beyond this domain and modifying the grand strategy by which nations plan their success. As we see, the strategy changed in order to counter the threat posed until a counter technology was..