"unarmed strike" belong to "unarmed attack" or not?

[Planesinger]

as title.

 

[FEADIN]

From the SRD:



"Armed" Unarmed Attacks

Sometimes a character’s or creature’s unarmed attack counts as an armed attack. A monk, a character with the Improved Unarmed Strike feat, a spellcaster delivering a touch attack spell, and a creature with natural physical weapons all count as being armed.
Note that being armed counts for both offense and defense (the character can make attacks of opportunity

You choose the better option.

You fight without a weapon (ie: unarmed) but you can threaten if you get the appropriate ability.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I'm not sure I understand the question...like that's going to stop me!

WotC's official position (which I've gotten from their customer service multiple times) is that an "unarmed strike" is a successful "unarmed attack." It actually says that in the PHB's glossary.

IOW, all that stuff about unarmed strike in the PHB is kind of linguistically awkward English, since you'll have passages about "successful unarmed strikes" in certain parts of the rules.

 

[Vegepygmy]

All unarmed strikes are unarmed attacks.

Not all unarmed attacks are unarmed strikes.