The word "strategists" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to someone whose job is to plan how to achieve a particular goal. For example: "The team of strategists worked hard to ensure the campaign was a success."
MAD playing in the minds of political strategists on either side of the border might just ensure that the two fragile coalitions in Dublin and Belfast survive for longer than many expected.
An interesting little study published this week by the consulting arm of PricewaterhouseCoopers found that the qualities needed in transformational leaders – the sort of strategists capable of rethinking an organisation riddled with cultural and existential problems, like banking after the crash or traditional industries threatened by upstart new rivals – are most commonly found in women over 55.
The Ahern government pumped billions of euros into cross-border projects while some of its backroom strategists talked about taking over the SDLP and advancing forwards as the main all-Ireland, 32-county party on this island.
In the past few weeks these projections, combined with their own polling, have led Labour strategists to calculate that seats such as Bermondsey and Old Southwark, Finchley and Golders Green, and Battersea are now in contention – and Labour's "ground war" has been intensified accordingly.
Tory, Labour and Lib Dem strategists were working late into the night to assess the impact of the changes.
In cultivating the far right and the hard left in Europe – between them they now control more than a quarter of the European parliament – Kremlin strategists are activating a policy that is at least a decade old, say Russian experts.
Both the opinion pollsters and the Washington political strategists were humbled on Tuesday night, however, when the Tea Party once again showed its capacity to upset the carefully stacked apple cart.
Labour campaign strategists knew Miliband was a turn-off for many voters and that the manifesto wasn't setting pulses racing, but they kidded themselves that organisation could compensate for uninspiring leadership.
McGowan strategists believe that a 5% shift of committed conservatives from Mirabella to the independent will put her within striking distance of victory, if preferences flow favourably.
Better Together strategists believed the White House and Obama had been considering for months whether he should intervene: Darling was approached during a visit to Washington for an IMF event in April by what one source described as "very nervous" British diplomats, who were worried an Obama intervention would backfire.
Sadly, Labour was ineffective in countering the Big Lie propagated by those devastatingly clever Tory strategists that Gordon Brown was responsible for the recession.
