noun (n)

• an elaborate and systematic plan of action(noun.cognition)

  Synonym:
  scheme
  

  source: wordnet30
• the branch of military science dealing with military command and the planning and conduct of a war(noun.cognition)

  source: wordnet30
• The science of military command, or the science of projecting campaigns and directing great military movements; generalship.(noun)

  source: webster1913