...Chapter 2 establishes how formal US Army doctrine influenced eventual planning for and implementation of US military government. Most notably, the publication of US Army doctrine, primarily in the form of Field Manual (FM) 27–5: Military Government, provided the seminal guidance...

...While conceptual and doctrinal debates are the "bread and butter" of military organizations in peacetime, what happens when war begins before the debate is settled? The chapter explores two cases – the debate over the defensive concept on the Suez Canal line prior to the Yom Kippur War...

...This chapter identifies several flaws in the arguments of Patrick Buchanan and others in favor of isolationism over the moral democratic realism espoused by the Bush Doctrine as the country's strategy in the fight against terror. Over the years, American foreign policy necessarily drifted away from...

... in the contrasting results of the appeasement policy used on Nazi Germany during the 1930s and the prudent and more far-sighted strategy used during the Cold War. Even as the situation in the Middle East remains unstable, the Bush Doctrine can hardly be considered a failure as its critics claim. American...

...Many of the tenets of the Bush Doctrine are derived from the Reagan administration's foreign policy positions. Similar to Reagan's stand on nuclear arms and strategic defense during the Cold War, President George W. Bush believes that preemption is a prudential strategy in responding to terrorist...

... the Bush Doctrine remain valid and should serve as a guide for the US in crafting a foreign policy that is consistent with American ideals and is geared toward ensuring the security of the free world. Kagan Fred Kurds Maliki Nouri al Shiites Sunni Muslims Syria Adelman Kenneth Baker James Bush...

... administration's policy of regime change in Iraq. The Bush Doctrine rests on two main pillars—the inadequacy of deterrence and containment strategies when dealing with terrorists and rogue regimes, and the culture of tyranny in the Middle East, which spawns aggressive secular and religious despotisms. Two key...

...This chapter examines the struggle of the U.S. Army cavalry to find new mounts and a tactical doctrine. It discusses criticisms of the mechanized cavalry, including its vulnerability to antitank weapons and its inability to function as soon as the fuel is exhausted, unlike horses. The chapter also...

...This chapter examines the replacement of the speak and peek doctrine of the U.S. cavalry with one developed around equipment on hand in order to address the war-fighting requirements of World War II. The industry participated in the development of new platforms for the mechanized force...

... military doctrine Soviet Union Gareyev Makhmut parity doctrine reasonable sufficiency doctrine sufficient defense doctrine Chernyaev Anatoly Gromyko Andrei nuclear weapons Gorbachev Mikhail New Thinking policy nuclear arms reduction Slipchenko Vladimir Gates Robert Perle Richard Adelman...

..., with overkill, they applied killing levels of ordnance to only three. The attack is an exemplar of what can go wrong when introducing new naval technologies and doctrine. This chapter by Alan D. Zimm examines the errors made by the Japanese, the impact of these errors on strike performance, and the ultimate...

...One component of the American amphibious warfare doctrine developed by the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps during the interwar period concerned the use of naval gunfire in the softening up of enemy defenses prior to the landing of troops ashore. Historians of the war in the Pacific have traditionally...

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...The main argument is that President Obama’s foreign and national security policy reflects a coherent set of assumptions and premises constituting a Doctrine. The book argues further that the Obama Doctrine dangerously repudiates the legacy of robust internationalism that has successfully guided...

... as well as the extent of his achievements. It follows Vandenberg’s political odyssey from his time as an arch-isolationist in the 1930s to becoming an ardent internationalist after World War II, and outlines his involvement in the passage of the Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, North Atlantic Treaty...

..., interviews with those who knew him best, and secondary literature to trace DePuy's life—from child to decorated officer to commander of Training and Doctrine Command....

...This chapter compares and contrasts the Obama Doctrine with various foreign policy traditions. The Obama Doctrine is in many ways unique, approximating most closely the foreign policy of President Carter during his first three years in office. The Obama Doctrine stands furthest from the foreign...

.... It also argues that the army needs a balance of different kinds of forces to succeed, and that cavalry is an absolutely critical member of that team. It agrees that the doctrine of the cavalry was inadequate, but that that mattered less than has often been argued. 3rd Brave Rifles Mechanized Cavalry Group...

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