In general, Mr. Rasmussen gets high marks for managing the new strategic doctrine, naming an expert group led by Madeleine K. Albright, the former secretary of state.
That strike marked the rise of the Begin doctrine, named for Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, which held that no Israeli adversary in the Middle East should be allowed to acquire a nuclear weapon.
Much of the current trouble could have been avoided if Mr. Rumsfeld had not been so determined to disprove the doctrine named for his rival, Secretary of State Colin Powell, which posits that force, if it is to be used at all, should be overwhelming.
Keynesianism, the doctrine named after British economist John Maynard Keynes, is based on two rules.
This is known as the Chevron doctrine, named for a 1984 case, Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, that established the principle.
Legal aficionados will recognize this as the Chevron doctrine, named for a 1984 case involving the Chevron oil company.
Under the so called "Salman doctrine" (named after King Salman bin Abdulaziz), Saudi Arabia has pursued a muscular foreign policy to face off Iran in Iraq, Syria and Yemen.
According to this doctrine, certain names are given by god, are naturally correct for application to what they name, and their use establishes an efficacious link between one who uses them, e.g. in prayer, and what they name, e.g. a god.
But the Republican candidates, by and large, have tried to sound more hawkish than the man for whom the doctrine is named.
With the move, the Reverend Ike stretched Christian tenets, founding the doctrine he named the Science of Living and thereby relocating the idea of God to the interior of the self, calling it "God in me," with the power to bring the believer anything he or she desired in the way of health, wealth and peace of mind.
