It can even be found guiding and explaining individual initiative. It is everywhere. Strategy is an abstraction , a construct. It has no concrete form or substance. At best it can be communicated in words and diagrams.
Strategy is the art of the general .
It is broad, long range and far reaching. In part, it is about the preparations made before battle, before the enemy is engaged. But it is also about avoiding battle and making combat unnecessary. It is as much about destroying the enemy's will to fight as it is about destroying the enemy in a fight. In short, destroying the will to compete differs little from destroying the will to fight.