{"id":76488,"date":"2026-09-21T01:00:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T05:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=76488"},"modified":"2026-09-20T10:34:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T14:34:35","slug":"qotd-military-doctrine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/qotd-military-doctrine\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Military doctrine"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><strong>Doctrine<\/strong>. Something I keep promising to write about and then don&#8217;t. Doctrine is, &#8220;the body of formal knowledge that tells a fighting force how it is expected to fight&#8221; (Parshall and Tully, 83). it is not a plan for a specific war, but the general planning framework a military brings to every war; think of it like a very complex list of &#8220;best practices&#8221;. This is necessary because war is too complex to make this stuff up on the fly. That said, just because a military has a written out doctrine doesn&#8217;t mean they can execute on that doctrine; the doctrine may call for things that military (or its political leaders) are simply not capable or willing to do. That said, a military that finds itself operating well outside its own doctrine is likely in trouble. Russian maneuver warfare doctrine generally goes by the moniker <strong>Deep Battle<\/strong> or <strong>Deep Operations<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deep_operation\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u0413\u043b\u0443\u0431\u043e\u043a\u0430\u044f \u043e\u043f\u0435\u0440\u0430\u0446\u0438\u044f<\/a>) and to say that the Russian Armed Forces [in the 2022 invasion of Ukraine] have not managed to pull off their doctrine in practice is a significant understatement.<\/p>\n<p>Bret Devereaux, <a href=\"https:\/\/acoup.blog\/2022\/03\/25\/miscellanea-a-very-short-glossary-of-military-terminology\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Miscellanea: A Very Short Glossary of Military Terminology&#8221;, <em>A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry<\/em><\/a>, 2022-03-25.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctrine. Something I keep promising to write about and then don&#8217;t. Doctrine is, &#8220;the body of formal knowledge that tells a fighting force how it is expected to fight&#8221; (Parshall and Tully, 83). it is not a plan for a specific war, but the general planning framework a military brings to every war; think of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,5,41],"tags":[31,1457],"class_list":["post-76488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-military","category-quotations","tag-army","tag-bretdevereaux"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-jTG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76488"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104893,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76488\/revisions\/104893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}