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This Week at War: The Long Death of the Powell Doctrine
What the four-stars are reading -- a weekly column from Small Wars Journal.
BY ROBERT HADDICK
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So what is the new Mullen Doctrine? For the chairman, the issue of whether the United States will employ military force has long been settled. The issue now is how the United States should apply its national power. Mullen summed up his views this way:
We must not look upon the use of military forces only as a last resort, but as potentially the best, first option when combined with other instruments of national and international power.
We must not try to use force only in an overwhelming capacity, but in the proper capacity, and in a precise and principled manner. And we must not shrink from the tug of war -- no pun intended -- that inevitably plays out between policymaking and strategy execution. Such interplay is healthy for the republic and essential for ultimate success.
The Mullen Doctrine accepts that every day for the foreseeable future, U.S. military forces will shoot at, or will be shot at, by somebody somewhere in the world. Given this seemingly permanent state of war, Mullen says that politicians, soldiers, and the public will need to engage in an open-ended discussion that will constantly adjust how the country employs its military forces.
Mullen assumes that the public now accepts that low-level warfare is an enduring fact of life. If he is wrong about this, the Powell Doctrine could rise from the grave.
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つまり軍事力の行使は日常的であり、問題はそれをどのくらい適度に他の要素と組み合わせて正確に正しく使えるか、ということですな。
「ギリギリまで使ってはいけない、使うなら一気に大量に」というパウエル・ドクトリンとはえらい違いだと指摘おります。
しかしこういうドクトリンも現状追認というか、後付けで名付けられることも多いわけで。