Sentence examples for outdated doctrine from inspiring English sources

Our wars in the Middle East since 2001 doubled down on that costly, outdated doctrine.

Now the country is shedding its skin, sloughing off an outdated doctrine, but nervous about what will take its place.

Russia's conscript forces are brutalized and demoralized, its officer corps is top-heavy and shaped by outdated Soviet doctrines of mechanized warfare, and much of its equipment is either old or being used improperly.

It implicitly recognizes that national sovereignty is in many ways an outdated and dangerous doctrine, one that must increasingly give way to other exigencies.

Recognizing reality, President Hollande is at last seeing off socialism just as, in his time, President Francois Mitterrand saw off communism in French politics by bringing the Communist Party into his cabinet only to expose their outdated and unrealistic doctrine.

With luck, a new breed of wily and agile Italian leaders will out-manoeuvre the blundering German dinosaurs, whose outdated rules and doctrines are leading the EU toward extinction.

The years since the Reagan administration pronounced that the fairness doctrine was outdated have seen a media revolution.

Many in the church felt the idea, never formally a part of church doctrine, was outdated and caused undue worry for parents.

As an indication of the kind of transformation needed, four American research centers have collaborated on a study, "Alliance Reborn: An Atlantic Compact for the 21st Century," that emphasizes the need to refashion NATO when it is at its most active around the world, but also when its strategic doctrine is outdated and domestic constituencies, especially in Europe, fail to see its relevance.

The third-party doctrine, they say, is outdated and too narrow to suit today's ever-changing technologies.

Even into the 1990s China had little more than a conscript army of ill-educated peasants using equipment based largely on obsolete Soviet designs of the 1950s and outdated cold-war (or even guerrilla-war) doctrine.