All 12 Uses of
doctrine
in
Starship Troopers
- I was tempted to go higher but I remembered what Migliaccio had said about not trying for a medal, and stuck to doctrine.†
Chpt 1
- Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and thoroughly immoral -- doctrine that 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and of the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it.
Chpt 2 *doctrine = a belief accepted as authoritative by some group
- Disregard of tactical command and doctrine, the team being in simulated combat.†
Chpt 5
- What was the tactical command and doctrine?†
Chpt 5
- You know the doctrine and the standing orders about article nine-oh-eight-oh — you must never give them a chance to violate it.†
Chpt 6
- Per M. I. doctrine, I ordered the pickup, felt rather cocky that I had managed to get the order out before my number two cut out to do it anyhow, turned to do the next thing I had to do, which was to lay down a simulated atomic ruckus to discourage the simulated enemy overtaking us.†
Chpt 7
- Doctrine required me to locate exactly, by radar beacon, my own men who could be affected by the blast.†
Chpt 7
- Technical instructions and tactical doctrine orders resulted from every brush with them, spread through the Fleet.†
Chpt 11
- Battle Plan had ordered a new tactical doctrine which I found dismaying: Do not close the Bugs tunnels.†
Chpt 13
- There are doctrines for how you should dispose a strike force underground — but what good are they?†
Chpt 13
- The only certainty was that the man who had written the doctrines had never himself tried them ....because, before Operation Royalty, nobody had come back up to tell what had worked and what had not.†
Chpt 13
- One doctrine called for guarding every intersection such as this one.†
Chpt 13
Definition:
a belief (or system of beliefs or principles) accepted as authoritative by some group