The article is focused on strategic thinking and it is analysed as a basic process in organization for future success. Different points of view are mentioned and the fundamentally importance of strategic thinking and management process in our daily responsibilities. Strategic thinking is described as a leader’s specific way of thinking that gives opportunity to analyze comprehensive processes and use an effective strategy for future development. Here is described the meaning of strategic thinking for people to become open-minded and to rise human relationships at the better level and create connections between ideas and final results in future. For leaders who are interested in increasing their knowledge about strategic thinking to become a strategic thinker are mentioned a few ways and nine steps to become a strategic thinker. The attention is paid to global century environment and specific needs for leaders in defense, like strategic military thinking. Such kind of thinking helps to build a great capacity and understanding for both analysis and synthesis which are necessary to assemble the data on which military leaders can make their better strategy execution requires and creative research and to jump at nonstandard decisions for future armed forces development.