Doctrine

About: Doctrine is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 21901 publications have been published within this topic receiving 204282 citations.

China's Use of Military Force: Beyond the Great Wall and the Long March

Abstract: In this 2003 study of China's militarism, Andrew Scobell examines the use of military force abroad - as in Korea (1950), Vietnam (1979), and the Taiwan Strait (1995–6) - and domestically, as during the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s and in the 1989 military crackdown in Tiananmen Square. Debunking the view that China has become increasingly belligerent in recent years because of the growing influence of soldiers, Scobell concludes that China's strategic culture has remained unchanged for decades. Nevertheless, the author uncovers the existence of a 'Cult of Defense' in Chinese strategic culture. The author warns that this 'Cult of Defense' disposes Chinese leaders to rationalize all military deployment as defensive, while changes in the People's Liberation Army's doctrine and capabilities over the past two decades suggest that China's twenty-first century leaders may use military force more readily than their predecessors.

The Origin and Scope of the American Doctrine of Constitutional Law

Abstract: This chapter shows how the American doctrine, allows to the judiciary the power to declare legislative Acts unconstitutional, and to treat them as null, come about, and explores what is the true scope of it? Within that margin, as among all these legislative considerations, the constitutional law-makers must be allowed a free foot. As legislative choice, ranging unfettered, may select one form of action or another, the judges must not interfere, since their question is a naked judicial one. Moreover, such is the nature of this particular judicial question that the preliminary determination by the legislature is a fact of very great importance, since the constitutions expressly intrust to the legislature this determination; they cannot act without making it. Furthermore, the constitutions not merely intrust to the legislatures a preliminary determination of the question, but they contemplate that this determination may be the final one; for they secure no revision of it.

The Forgotten Dimensions of Strategy

Abstract: term "strategy" needs continual definition For most people, Clausewitz's formulation "the use of engagements for the object of the war," or, as Liddell Hart paraphrased it, "the art of distributing and applying military means to fulfill the ends of policy," is clear enough Strategy concerns the deployment and use of armed forces to attain a given political objective Histories of strategy, including Liddell Hart's own Strategy of Indirect Ap proach, usually consist of case studies, from Alexander the Great to MacArthur, of the way in which this was done Nevertheless, the experience of the past century has shown this approach to be inadequate to the point of triviality In the West the concept of "grand strategy" was introduced to cover those industrial, finan cial, demographic, and societal aspects of war that have become so salient in the twentieth century; in communist states all stra tegic thought has to be validated by the holistic doctrines of Marxism-Leninism Without discarding such established con cepts, I shall offer here a somewhat different and perhaps slightly simpler framework for analysis, based on a study of the way in which both strategic doctrine and warfare itself have developed over the past 200 years I shall also say something about the implications of this mode of analysis for the present strategic posture of the West