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Operations in Afghanistan and Iraq have highlighted a gap between political goals, strategic objectives, operational planning and implementation at the tactical level. The model proposes to organize key players and staffs into four interrelated and complementary groups with differentiated functions and output. The model allows for top down and bottom up as well as double loop learning feed back mechanisms to influence the implementation of the strategic objectives. The interpretive group, focuses on the level of grand strategy, determining the normative goals that a government is working towards realizing. The group interacts iteratively with the political levels of government. The adaptation group focuses at the level of national security strategy, determining and inventing the legitimate policies that the national goals can be coupled to at the national and international levels. The linear group focuses on the instrumental level of strategy. This group is mainly operating at the administrative level and formulates strategy and determines the capacities needed to implement the strategies. The strategy coordination group consists of rotating members from the other three groups and coordinates and evaluates the implementation of the strategy. This group ensures that strategies are implemented and evaluated in context of the changing situation. The ideas of this paper have been developed by the Research Group on Strategy at the Royal Danish Defence College. The members of this group are: Liselotte Odgaard, Villiam Krüger-Klausen, Kristian Brobæk Madsen, Lars Nygaard, Hans Peter Hansen Michaelsen, Lars Cramer, Heidi Steffensen Güntelberg, Lars Peter Meldgaard Johannessen, Peter Jacob Blædel Gottlieb, Henrik Laugesen, Michael Jedig Jensen, Peter Kim Laustsen, Jens Ola Christopher Malmquist, Thomas Elkjer Nissen. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]