Also on Wednesday, Gen. John P. Abizaid, the top commander in the Middle East, told the Senate that the reason for the command failures was that "our doctrine is not right" and cited "breakdowns in procedures".
"It is not part of our doctrine".
"Our doctrine is not right," General Abizaid told senators.
"The central theme of our doctrine is restraint and responsibility," a general told me.
But what I do know is that transformation will involve change of our doctrine, our training, our leader development, our organizations, matériel, people and facilities".
"We will remain permanently alert, and this is of course and has always been in our doctrine".
"We are continuously collecting and rapidly applying lessons learned into our training, leader development and, as appropriate, our doctrine," one Army official said.
We believe the poor will be better blessed if they do as described in our doctrine: specifically, they should work for what they receive.
The U.S. was wrong to assume that Russia would see the meaninglessness of strategic superiority and come to share our doctrine.
And the new START treaty demonstrates that trust and certainty are best built by increasing the exchange of information about our doctrine, forces and intentions.
