The article provides a summary of knowledge relating to strategic analysis – a tool of security strategic planning process. It explains the conceptions of analytical methods, starting from the classical outputs, at the theory of complexity ending. The first part contains overview of method used under the process of security strategic planning in political practice of state. Second part is a proposal of use the taxonomic methods in order to identify critically important, strategic problems of security as a base to build a strategic thrust of processes and events observed in internal and external state environment. The third section describes how to adopt theory of complexity, in particular theory of fractals to lead the researches in area of security.