Strategic thinking, in the face of practical problems such as enterprise management, military management, state management, etc., uses abstract thinking to continuously, dynamically and comprehensively measure the quantitative change degree formed by some related factors, and find out the regularity that these related factors influence each other and change together in quantitative change degree.
Based on these laws, under the guidance of the formed target pattern, the real problem will evolve from the current state to the target state. As an ideological movement, strategic thinking is a dynamic reflection of the needs of military practice in the minds of strategic instructors.
At the same time, the quality of strategic thinking affects the quality of strategic guidance and war practice. The quality of strategic thinking mainly depends on the military practical experience, military artistic accomplishment and historical and cultural accumulation of the thinking subject, and the key is to master scientific military epistemology and methodology.
The ancient war was small in scale, limited in space, simple in combat mode and more prominent in strategic thinking. The collectivity and sociality of modern warfare are greatly enhanced, and strategic thinking and decision-making need the assistance of relevant technical means, especially the help of computer-aided decision-making system.