After 9/11 Uzbekistan became a close strategic partner of the US, providing military facilities and transit routes to support US and Nato operations in Afghanistan.
"GMG is entering a new period of growth, thanks to the strategic leadership of Andrew Miller and Alan Rusbridger.
Iran is sending arms to Assad because they know his downfall would be a strategic defeat for them.
"As AMC Networks has expanded internationally, we have had a great desire to do something we consider fundamentally strategic, which is to take our content and put it on channels we own," said Sapan.
Privately, Cameron is still waiting to hear more clearly from the hesitant Obama about what his strategic thinking might be.
He added: "After a comprehensive review I've determined that we can ensure the security of America and our allies – and maintain a strong and credible strategic deterrent – while reducing our deployed strategic nuclear weapons by up to one-third".
In a foreign policy speech in Sydney on Sunday following the G20 summit, Merkel sounded deeply despondent about Putin's policies and behaviour and gloomy about the prospects of forcing a strategic shift from the Kremlin.
Michie points to examples of best practice such as the strategic projects team at NHS Midlands and East, which helps commissioners to work more effectively through collaboration: "One of the challenges commissioners have is that they're unlikely to have the skill sets they need in one organisation but can as a team," she says.
Unless dramatic measures are taken, and fast, Labour will continue to be punished for the strategic error of neglecting its machinery in Scotland and for taking voters for granted.
His biggest strategic miscalculation was not to use the leverage he had over George Bush as the only substantial western ally to join the 2003 invasion – the "coalition of the willing" – to extract a better plan for the occupation of Saddam Hussein's ill-governed state once the fighting was over (even sooner than expected).
Dave Forsey, chief executive of the UK's largest sports retailer, said: "We have a history of strategic stakes and that may or may not continue".
