Under LeMay, McNamara was a member of the team that agreed a strategy of firebombing 67 Japanese cities, with the loss of 1.9 million civilian lives - before the atom bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
According to Ian Smith's memoirs, Van der Byl organised a meeting between Ian Smith and Lieutenant-General Peter Walls, Commander of the Rhodesian Army, shortly before the first Zimbabwean elections in February 1980, where they agreed a strategy to prevent Robert Mugabe winning.
May will face a grilling from MPs on Wednesday amid concerns that the government is struggling to agree a strategy for Brexit.
Russia and the US have moved closer to agreeing a strategy over Iran's nuclear programme, butthe two countries remain dividied as to how to tackle the crisis in Syria.
Perhaps even more lethally, in the margins of the Privy Council, out of sight of the broadcasters, Conservative and Labour ministers formed an informal coalition against the BBC, agreeing a strategy to intervene to get the kind of reporting they wanted, to be followed by appeals to the BBC governors, and if that did not work to "reform" the governors.
For a start, it will not be able to begin integrating the businesses for almost six months, as it first has to agree a strategy with the Dutch regulator, then consult unions, employees, and other interested parties on the proposals for the next three months.
Boldly, the city bid twice to host the Olympics: it eventually settled for the 2002 Commonwealth games.Since then, the city's leaders Sir Howard and Sir Richard Leese, the Labour council leader have transformed the city's governance, by bringing on board neighbouring local authorities to agree a strategy for Greater Manchester.
The talks had been called to agree a strategy to combat the group, which controls large parts of Iraq and Syria.
Just as they are about to agree a strategy, Superman himself appears and causes chaos for the participants with a selection of his superpowers.
"It must concern us all that the price of oil has dropped so heavily in such a short space of time and we need to agree a strategy to deal with fluctuations that undermine confidence in the North Sea".
The only way out of this vicious spiral of less spending, slower growth and fewer jobs is for the G2O to agree a strategy for global growth which has as its goal increased world growth worth 3 trillion and 30 million jobs over the next three years, and has at its the idea that Africa is not the problem but a key part of the solution.
