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| | Wikipedia: Doctrine |
 | | Doctrine, from Latin doctrina, (compare doctor), means "a body of teachings" or "instructions", taught principles or positions, as the body of teachings in a branch of knowledge or belief system. |
 | | The reader will judge the coherence of various 'doctrines' of policy: the Stimson Doctrine, the Truman Doctrine, the Eisenhower Doctrine, the Brezhnev Doctrine, the Nixon Doctrine, the Carter Doctrine, the Bush doctrine, and the less catchy Bush administration doctrine of military preeminence, the Kirkpatrick doctrine etc. (see list of US Presidential Doctrines. |
 | | The typical example is tactical doctrine in which a standard set of maneuvers, kinds of troops and weapons are employed as a default approach to a kind of attack. |
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