I'm sure you're just being funny, but I'll bite: How I'm using the term strategic here is to indicate that certain resources, those that are most critical to b

I'm sure you're just being funny, but I'll bite: How I'm using the term strategic here is to indicate that certain resources, those that are most critical to be able to function, such as water and oil, will not always respond to market forces. So the flatness of suppliers, that it is fungible, is rendered irrelavent once it becomes critical, because that is an aspect of the market to which it no longer strictly applies.