The Sources of Military Doctrine¶
Posen, B. R. (1984). The Sources of Military Doctrine: France, Britain, and Germany Between the World Wars. Cornell University Press.
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Primes¶
- Law of the Instrument
- Military strategy and clinical practice: doctrinal lock-in, where armies trained on one doctrine recategorise engagements that resist it, and therapeutic monoculture, where pharmacology-, psychotherapy-, and family-systems-trained clinicians see different problems in the same patient with the same presentation.
This sourceArgues from organization theory that militaries favor the doctrines their existing capabilities and routines support, and that a doctrine's character shapes how states perceive and categorize threats and engagements — supporting doctrinal lock-in and doctrine-as-perceptual-frame.
- Military strategy and clinical practice: doctrinal lock-in, where armies trained on one doctrine recategorise engagements that resist it, and therapeutic monoculture, where pharmacology-, psychotherapy-, and family-systems-trained clinicians see different problems in the same patient with the same presentation.
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