The phrase "a strategic position" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a location, role, or stance that is advantageous for achieving specific goals or objectives.
Example: "The company has established a strategic position in the market by focusing on innovation and customer service."
Alternatives: "a tactical advantage" or "a key role".
Part of this is simply that any type of negative campaigning tends to entail more risk than positive campaigning, and candidates with as strong a strategic position as Mr. Romney's should be loath to take risks.
Hawaii holds a strategic position in the defense system of the United States.
Dreyfus, the perfect case of attempted assimilation, "signifies a strategic position which... is already lost".
It has nearly 30m people and occupies a strategic position between Asia's emerging giants, India and China.
He would arrive before mid-day and place himself in a strategic position somewhere outside the conference hall.
An Adriatic seaport and trading centre surpassed only by Venice, Bari commanded a strategic position on the crossroads between western Europe and the Byzantine East.
It lies along a tributary of the Tenjin River and occupies a strategic position on a plain bounded to the south by the Chūgoku Range.
It originated as the Celtic and Roman stronghold of Salodurum, occupying a strategic position at the approach to the Rhine from the southwest.
Its eastern boundary on the Euphrates River, at the conjunction of several routes over the Taurus Mountains, gave Commagene a strategic position between the Roman and Parthian empires.
But viewed in a convex mirror mounted in a strategic position, the rug becomes a convincing image (albeit in reverse) of Pollock's painting, like a slide projected backwards.
And Iraq's oil workers in particular are in a strategic position, socially, industrially and historically to make sure that it never is.
