When the term strategy was first mentioned in a 1616 translation of a Greek military text, it referred to the role of a general or commander. Over time, it evolved to encompass the plans and actions carried out by these leaders, and by the late 1880s, it was being used in non-military contexts as well. The word was derived from the Ancient Greek word strategos, which means “general”. This word is made up of stratos, meaning “army” (originating from Proto-Indo-European stere, “spread”), and agos, meaning “leader” (tracing back to the Proto-Indo-European reconstruction ag, “to drive” or “draw forward”). Stratos is also the root of words like stratosphere, while agein is found in terms such as glucagon, pedagogue, synagogue, agony, and many others.
