doctrine
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Recall what the Bush doctrine was and wasn’t.
Each doctrine answered a question: What is America’s purpose in the world?
From MarketWatch
The Monroe doctrine acquired its imperialist character around 1900 under presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.
When he reached New York, he enrolled in a yeshiva to resume his Talmud studies—as his parents would have desired—but soon left after finding he could no longer accept all of the doctrines.
They would contradict the Navy’s existing strategic and tactical doctrines, which call for distributed firepower, not the concentration envisioned in a new battleship fleet.
From Los Angeles Times
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