大战略又称为高战略（high strategy），以「有目的的运用所有一个安全共同体能运用的权力手段」来利用国家整体资源的总体战略。

冷战时期，美国的围堵政策。

1. ↑ Gray, Colin: War, Peace and International Relations - An Introduction to Strategic History, Abingdon and New York: Routledge 2007, p. 283.

Grand strategy, also called high strategy, comprises the "purposeful employment of all instruments of power available to a security community". Military historian B. H. Liddell Hart says about grand strategy:

[T]he role of grand strategy – higher strategy – is to co-ordinate and direct all the resources of a nation, or band of nations, towards the attainment of the political object of the war – the goal defined by fundamental policy.