Dueling Doctrines: Mullen vs. Powell? Or Mullen & Powell vs. Rumsfeld? RAND Corporation, March 17, 2010

Reflecting changes in the American approach to counterinsurgency, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen recently enunciated a new and apparently more restrained doctrine for the use of armed force. But was his March 3 speech at Kansas State University really a repudiation of the so-called Powell Doctrine?