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doctrine1 CONSTRUCTMilitary doctrineJOMINI · WAR PRINCIPLES

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Military science and strategy

Codified principles for how forces fight

In military science, doctrine is the set of codified principles that guides how armed forces are organized, trained, and fought. Antoine-Henri Jomini's Précis de l'art de la guerre (1838) set out fixed principles of war that could be taught and applied as a system, an early statement of what later became formal military doctrine; Barry Posen's The Sources of Military Doctrine (1984) is the seminal modern study of how states choose it and why they change it. Doctrine in this field lives in field manuals and staff publications and shapes how units actually fight. Here the referent is an official prescription for the conduct of war, not a body of religious teaching or a principle courts apply.[1][2]

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A codified principle or procedure for how forces are organized and fight, issued in manuals
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Read from field manuals, doctrinal publications, and the observed conduct of operations

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References

  1. Jomini, A. H. (1838). Précis de l'art de la guerre [The art of war]. Anselin.
  2. Posen, B. R. (1984). The sources of military doctrine: France, Britain, and Germany between the world wars. Cornell University Press.

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