Doctrine
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Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell’s
doctrine
– if you break it, you own it – applies to Putin’s intervention in Ukraine as much as to George W. Bush’s misadventure in Iraq.
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However, if we'd had this talk 60 years ago, we would have seen how the emergence of new aircraft and tank technologies, which give the advantage to the attacker, make the Blitzkrieg
doctrine
very credible and thus create the possibility of war in Europe.
And so, they're joining China, whose
doctrine
of use for 15 years has been both defensive and offensive.
It's almost as though either you accept the
doctrine
and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the
doctrine
and you're living in some kind of spiritual wasteland under the guidance of CNN and Walmart.
And, in addition, the Israeli
doctrine
of the periphery, the idea that Israel's security was best achieved by creating alliances with the non-Arab states in the periphery of the region in order to balance the Arab states in its vicinity.
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