This occasional paper defines an approach to strategic planning and then illustrates how one might implement the approach to define alternative counterterrorism strategies, using RAND researchers and research as a resource. It should be of interest to those in the incoming administration as well as throughout the . government interested in doing strategic planning. The paper is also a resource for those involved in defining . counterterrorism strategies inside and outside the . government. This research in the public interest was undertaken by the RAND Corporation using flexible internal research f.