Military doctrine

Military doctrine is the sum theory of practices that a military uses or intends to use in warfare. Doctrine takes into account a variety of factors in influencing a military's thought process and stems down from the strategic level (political decisions) to the operational level (military objective-method decisions) to the tactical level (combat methods.) The most important are the likely war aims of a nation's military, as well as what terrain it intends to fight over, and if it expects to have either qualitative or quantitative superiority or inferiority.

There can be great difference in military doctrines; peaceful jungle nations tend to have small, man-power intensive militaries, with extra training and focus on humanitarian relief and disaster control. Nations that have to fight insurgencies often gear their military completely to the requirements of counter insurgency and nations that intend aggressive land conquest usually have militaries consisting of a large quantity of mechanised vehicles.

List of doctrines

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Military Doctrines of the World
Nation	Armed Forces	Doctrine	Type	Description
Arthurista	Commonwealth Army	Intergrated Mobile Operations	Mechanised Warfare	Integrated Mobile Operations is Arthurista's doctrine for fighting the AirLand Battle in network-centric conditions. Ignoring the general trend towards transitioning to counter-insurgency and peacekeeping operations, Arthuristan planners are firmly focused on massed mechanised wars against peer opponents, with a focus on the operational-level of warfare. In the defensive phase, it emphasises the use of mobile and self-sufficient combined-arms combat groups, operating in swarms, to slow, attrit and contain an invading force, avoiding decisive engagements against superior forces or fighting from static positions, implementing the maxim "fight over the ground, not for the ground." Transitioning to counterattack, reserves will be rapidly concentrated on a 'schwerpunkt' and attempt to break through into the enemy's operational rear, collapsing the aggressor's force. Artillery plays a key role in providing direct fire support in both phases of the operation, while tactical air power, air assault infantry and theatre ballistic missiles provide vital interdiction, raiding and disruption capability throughout the depth of the battlespace.
Carthage	Carthage Defense Forces	Distributed Engagement	Mobile Operations	Distributed Engagement focuses on the use of independent brigade-size units to disrupt enemy momentum and cohesion, allowing a major enemy force to be defeated in detail while avoiding a potentially costly pitched battle at the peak of strength. The lethality of these units is enhanced through the widespread use of precision-guided munitions and heavily networked formations, with a focus on fast reaction times to exploit enemy weak points and deny the enemy opportunities to do the same.
File:Lubbyflag1.png Lubyak	Lubyakan Armed Force	Independent High Level Dominance	Mechanised & Armoured Exploitation	Independent High Level Dominance (IHLD) is designed to play the Dominion of the Lubyak's advantages of numerical superiority and rapidity of mobilisation to maximum effect. IHLD is intended to coordinate the actions of forces on the operations and strategic level into a series of organised assaults by motorised and armoured forces to break through enemy lines, followed by the insertion of highly mobile mechanised/armoured forces into the enemy's rear area. These forces will proceed to selectively destroy the enemy's force multipliers in order to render their surviving forces incapable of meaningful resistance, and easily mopped up by follow on forces.
File:Monemvasiaflag.jpg Monemvasia	Monemvasian Armed Forces	Information Overmatch	Hybrid Warfare	Information Overmatch, also known as the Sarantos Doctrine, is the Monemvasian Armed Forces (MAF) response to net-centric warfare and the 21st century revolution in military affairs. Information Overmatch fuses high level strategic planning with asymmetrical methods in order to achieve overmatch against other nations' command, control, and communications (C3) systems and infrastructure. When the enemy's ability to control the battlespace is sufficiently degraded through the extensive use of hybrid and electronic/information warfare (EW/IW), conventional forces will be rapidly introduced in order to destroy the enemy's combat power.
Template:Country data Prekonate	Prekovi Armed Forces	Total Superior Dominance of War	Operational warfare	Warfare is viewed as a means of achieving political objectives. The military is tightly interwoven with the state bureaucracy. The armed forces are organized for flexibility, and can be set on diverse tasks such as deterrence, regional pacification, internal policing, and low-intensity warfare.
Template:Country data Questers	GSR Defence Forces	Conclusive Battle	Mechanised Offensive	The aim of the operational doctrine is known as "Interference." The aim is to use smaller, more independent and highly mechanised formations to consistently harass the enemy and upset his plan while working towards the overall goal: to break his cohesion and turn his flank, at which point it will thrown in most of its tank forces and maneuver forces in one gigantic, sustained attack on the enemy's centre of gravity. This singular, decisive battle is known as the Conclusive Battle.
Orun Redisus	Imperial Legion	Dual Facet Defensive Doctrine	Long Range Mechanised Warfare	Dual Facet Defensive Doctrine is the primary operational directive of the Empire of Tarsas. It is designed to utilise Battalion sized groups of mechanised infantry and light armour to rapidly engage enemy forces over a vast area. With sparsely populated steppes as the border with the Empire's main enemy, the doctrine was developed with defence in mind. Heavier assets are then delivered where the enemy invasion is the strongest. The armed forces can rapidly switch to the "offensive facet" to counterattack a reeling enemy quickly and with force. Forces are coordinated centrally in a command centre. The strategy relies on fast moving convoys and trains that can keep up with and supply units.