Thinking strategically is something you do while you are doing everything else – it’s a habit not a chunk of time in your calendar, thus sometimes you need to think deeply about some topics, therefore when I started think about my favorite strategic thinker, I found that there are 3 questions I must answer them, what, whom and why? Mohamed Anwar El Sadat - Hero of the Crossing: Mohamed Anwar Sadat”, I will take into his most life milestones and why he is a strategic thinker. He is indeed the champion of war and peace.

1. Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat
“Hero of the Crossing”
Strategic Thinker
Presented by: Sherin Haroun El. Rashied

2. Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat
“Hero of the Crossing”

3. Introduction
• Thinking strategically is something you do while
you are doing everything else – it’s a habit not a
chunk of time in your calendar, thus sometimes
you need to think deeply about some topics,
therefore when I started think about my favorite
strategic thinker, I found that there are 3 questions
I must answer them, what, whom and why?

4. The first question was simply what strategic thinking means
and what is required to be a strategic thinker. Accordingly,
the Strategic thinking is defined as the individual’s capacity
for thinking conceptually, imaginatively, systematically, and
opportunistically with regard to the attainment of success in
the future or another words its defined as a mental
or thinking process applied by an individual in the context of
achieving success in a game or other endeavor. As a
cognitive activity, it produces thought. However, “Being
strategic,” means being perceptive, future-oriented, open-
minded, proactive, working off the front-foot, and making
and taking decisions based on evidence and calculated
hunches.

5. The second question was whom shall I choose as my
favorite strategic thinker, whereas most of Strategic
Thinkers are found to be the most highly effective leaders,
as Strategic Leadership is the ability to influence others to
voluntarily make decisions that enhance the prospects for
the organization’s long-term success while maintaining
short-term financial stability. Different leadership
approaches impact the vision and direction of growth and
the potential success of an organization. To successfully
deal with change, all executives need the skills and tools for
both strategy formulation and implementation.
Based on that I have choose “Hero of the Crossing:
Mohamed Anwar Sadat”, below will take into his most life
milestones and why he is a strategic thinker.
Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat (25 December
1918 – 6 October 1981, Mit Abu al-Kawm,
Egypt) was the third President of Egypt,
serving from 15 October 1970 until he
was murdered by persons who were
opposed to his policy of reconciliation
with Israel and his close links with the
United States.

6. The era of Sadat is a period full of important
historical events and events in the history of
modern Egypt, in his eleven years as president,
he changed Egypt's trajectory, departing from
many of the political and economic tenets of
Nasserism, re-instituting a multi-party system,
and launching the Infitah economic policy which
reflect how Strategic Thinkers are Willing to be
adaptable and adjusting with new different
approaches and new ideas as no broad-minded.

7. One of the problems in assessing the Sadat era is
the man himself. Prior to becoming president
when Gamal Abdul Nasser suddenly died in
September 1970, Sadat was not particularly well
known. He had survived in Nasser's shadow, one
of his fellow revolutionaries from the glory days
of 1952, but not a major figure. Within months of
coming to power, he was very nearly ousted in a
coup attempt mounted by hard-liners within the
regime, apparently with Soviet backing. This
almost certainly helps explain Sadat's decision to
seek a new relationship with Washington and to
keep his distance from Moscow, which reflect
clearly how Strategic Thinkers Embrace the Future
and New Possibilities with no boarders.

8. Strategic thinker don’t Accept the Status Quo, therefore Shortly after taking office, Sadat shocked
many Egyptians by dismissing and imprisoning two of the most powerful figures in the regime
“Corrective Revolution”, Vice President Ali Sabri, who had close ties with Soviet officials, and
Sharawy Gomaa, the Interior Minister, who controlled the secret police. Sadat's rising popularity
would accelerate after he cut back the powers of the hated secret police, expelled Soviet military
from the country and reformed the Egyptian army for a renewed confrontation with Israel.

9. One of the most important strategic thinking
skills is to develop the right action plan. The
plan has to contain the clear answer to the
question how to achieve your goals, thus on 6
October 1973, in conjunction with Hafez al-
Assad of Syria, Sadat launched the October War
(Ramadan War), also known internationally as
the Yom Kippur War, a surprise attack against
the Israeli forces occupying the Egyptian Sinai
Peninsula.

10. Strategic thinkers take risk with a leap of faith. They stay open-minded.
They are not averse to risk. They accept that risks can be scary, and they’re
willing to walk through that fear, from this point; on 19 November 1977,
Sadat was the first Arab leader to visit Israel; he did what no Arab leader
had previously dared to do -- take his plea for peace directly to Jerusalem.
He risked not only his credibility at home but also among other Arab and
Muslim leaders, which he traveled to Jerusalem to place his plan for a
peace settlement before the Israeli Knesset (parliament). This initiated a
series of diplomatic efforts that Sadat continued despite strong opposition
from most of the Arab world and the Soviet Union. U.S. Pres. Jimmy
Carter mediated the negotiations between Sadat and Begin that resulted
in the Camp David Accords (September 17, 1978), a preliminary peace
agreement between Egypt and Israel.

11. Conclusion:
Personally, I believe that Sadat was one of the greatest strategic thinkers in
contemporary history. He was previously a genius and was able to make many
decisions that influenced the history of Egypt, both politically and politically.
Economic or social level.
I will not exaggerate that I said that the impact of his decision has spread in the
Middle East and even the world, and that many of his decisions did not
understand the importance of its time, but I will not exaggerate if I said that it
took many years to understand its importance, We also learned from him the
meaning of strategic deception, whether in war or in peace, and how peace is
peace of power, not peace of weakness.
He is indeed the champion of war and peace.