Khomeini, Iran's one-time supreme leader, implemented a doctrine of victory through terrorisation (al-nasro-be-rob), and his regime's ideologue, Mesbah Yazdi, has said that "if violence is the only way of achieving the Islamic goal, then it is necessary to use it".
He rejected NATO's implied willingness to go to war alongside America in Afghanistan after September 11th 2001, preferring "coalitions of the willing" to traditional alliances.In Iraq, he implemented a doctrine of prevention: in an age of global terror, self-defence meant acting alone and pre-emptively, if need be.
Nawaf Obaid, a long-time Saudi government security adviser who is currently a visiting fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, told VICE that Saudi Arabia is in the process of implementing a new defense doctrine that has the Saudis taking a more offensive military posture in the region, in lieu of a significant American footprint.
In 1995 the Swiss abandoned traditional doctrine and implemented a defensive plan that made control of Swiss airspace its highest and main priority.
When President Bush was implementing his doctrine, there was "not a peep" out of a certain future Democratic nominee.
Create and implement a plan.
As the country's lawmakers discuss the details of how to implement the doctrine of collective self-defense, the question is how far Abe will be able to pursue his proposals.
While McChrystal implemented COIN doctrine, mixing in his obsession with "kinetic operations" by U.S. Special Forces, Petraeus literally wrote the book -- namely, The U.S Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual.
She implemented an intervention order.
Petraeus asked for and received a surge of US troops and resources to implement the COIN doctrine.
