14 Facts About Military doctrine

Military doctrine is the expression of how military forces contribute to campaigns, major operations, battles, and engagements.

Formal British Military Doctrine was first published in 1988 and in 1996 became British Defence Doctrine applicable throughout the armed forces.

Prussian Military doctrine was published as Regulations for the Instruction of the Troops in Field Service and the Exercises of the larger Units of the 17th June, 1870.

The Military doctrine was revised in 1887 and published in English in 1893 as The Order of Field Service of the German Army, by Karl Kaltenborn und Stachau, and in 1908 as Felddienst Ordnung.

Chinese military doctrine is influenced by a number of sources including an indigenous classical military tradition characterized by strategists such as Sun Tzu and modern strategists such as Mao Zedong, along with Western and Soviet influences.

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India's nuclear Military doctrine follows the policy of credible minimum deterrence, No first strike, No use of nuclear weapons on Non-nuclear states and Massive nuclear retaliation in case deterrence fails.

India has recently adopted a new war doctrine known as "Cold Start" and its military has conducted exercises several times since then based on this doctrine.

Israel's military doctrine is formed by its small size and lack of strategic depth.

Israeli Military doctrine is constructed with the assumption that Israel would be largely self-sufficient in its war-fighting, without nearby allies to assist.

Soviet meaning of military doctrine was very different from US military usage of the term.

Soviet Military doctrine emphasizes combined-arms warfare as well as operational warfare.

However, during his tenure as Chief of the General Staff General Sir Nigel Bagnall directed that British Military Doctrine was to be prepared, and tasked Colonel Timothy Granville-Chapman to prepare it.

However, until recently, most NATO Military doctrine has been mirrored by equivalent, but different, national Joint Doctrines.

The Military doctrine recognized the likelihood that one side or the other might try to seize Yugoslav territory as a forward staging area, to ensure lines of communication or simply to deny the territory to enemy forces.