The Strategic viewpoint is a description of the strategic picture of how capability (for example, military capability) is evolving in order to support capability management and equipment planning. It contains capability management and shows how capabilities map to operational concepts over time. Its main intent is to analyze the areas of capability gaps, overlaps, and redundancies, and to map capabilities to organizations and platforms. There is no reference to implementation in this viewpoint.
Typical stakeholders of the Strategic viewpoint are high‑level planners, policy makers, and analysts.