You are using a different definition of strategic than the DoD uses, what you are describing is closer to tactical decisions.
They are talking about typically Org wide scope, long-term direction .
They aren't talking about planning hidden as 'strategic planning' in the biz world.
LLMs are powerful, but are by definition past focused, and are still in-context learners.
As they covered, hallucinations, adverse actions, unexplainable models, etc are problematic.
The "novel strategic approaches" is what in this domain would be tactics, not stratagy which is focused on the unknowable or unknown knowable.
They are talking about issues way past methods like circumscription and the ability to determine if a problem can be answered as true or false in a reasonable amount of time.
Here is a recent primer on the complexity of circumscription as it is a bit of a obscure concept.
Remember, finding an effective choice function is hard no matter what your problem domain is for non trivial issues, setting a durable shared direction to communicate in the presence of the unknowable future that can't be gamed or predictable by an advisory is even more so.
Researching what mission command is may help understand the nuances that are lost with overloaded terms.
Strategy being distinct from stratagem is also an important distinction in this domain.
To add to that, and because the GP had mentioned (a "virtual") Clausewitz, "human"/irl strategy itself has in many cases been too focused on said past and, because of that, has caused defeats for the adopters of those "past-focused" strategies. Look at the Clausewitzian concept of "decisive victory" which was adopted by German WW1 strategists who, in so doing, ended up causing defeat for their country.
Good strategy is an art, the same as war, no LLM nor any other computer code would be ever able to replicate it or improve on it.
They are talking about typically Org wide scope, long-term direction .
They aren't talking about planning hidden as 'strategic planning' in the biz world.
LLMs are powerful, but are by definition past focused, and are still in-context learners.
As they covered, hallucinations, adverse actions, unexplainable models, etc are problematic.
The "novel strategic approaches" is what in this domain would be tactics, not stratagy which is focused on the unknowable or unknown knowable.
They are talking about issues way past methods like circumscription and the ability to determine if a problem can be answered as true or false in a reasonable amount of time.
Here is a recent primer on the complexity of circumscription as it is a bit of a obscure concept.
https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2407.20822
Remember, finding an effective choice function is hard no matter what your problem domain is for non trivial issues, setting a durable shared direction to communicate in the presence of the unknowable future that can't be gamed or predictable by an advisory is even more so.
Researching what mission command is may help understand the nuances that are lost with overloaded terms.
Strategy being distinct from stratagem is also an important distinction in this domain.