Editing Alexander the Great (section)

===Strategy===
{{Main|Military tactics of Alexander the Great#Grand strategy}}
Alexander's invasion of Persia as a whole has been denoted as a supreme example of a "strategic line" of conducting war, a line formed  by "the chain of logic that connects operations into a single whole." In his book ''Strategy'', Soviet military officer and theorist [[Alexander Svechin]] delineates Alexander's strategic steps. After securing his Greek base and the Balkans by subjugating his political opponents, and securing his army's rear through the conquest of all the Afro-Asian coastline, where the Persian fleet was based and from which it was supplied, Alexander, moved to confront directly the Persians. He thus resolved the eternal problem of an army conducting operations deep into enemy territory, Svechin states, in an "exemplary manner."<ref name=svechin>{{cite book |last= Svechin|first=Alexander |author-link=Alexander Svechin|date=1991|orig-date=1927|editor-last=Lee|editor-first=Kent D.|title=Strategy|publisher=East View Information Services|page=263 |chapter=Combining Operations for Achieving the ultimate Goal of the War|isbn=1-879944-33-2}}</ref>