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RogueUSMC wrote:Doctrine...you have to establish yours.

A country's military trains under a given doctrine. In WWII, Russia's doctrine was throw the kitchen sink in there and the heck with casualties. American forces do not and have never adopted that doctrine but doctrine it was.

You have planning and you have doctrine. Planning is done to apply to a given tactical or strategic situation. Once contact is made, the plan usually deviates from it's original form to adapt to the situation that has been changed by the enemy's actions. This is where doctrine takes over.

If platoon 'A' loses comm with platoon 'B', platoon leader 'A' knows roughly what platoon leader 'B' will do next because of doctrine. They can coordinate to a certain extent without communication.

When carrying a gun, you need to establish your doctrine for yourself. Well, this applies to other facets of life as well but...

Your doctrine needs to be decided before the call for it is needed. If you draw your gun, plan to use it...if you use it, plan to stop the threat...stopping the threat is best accomplished by stopping a heartbeat. The answers that are established here will be doctrine.

The only decisions that should need to be made IN the situation is when/if to stop that process already determined by doctrine.

If you wait until you are in a situation to decide how to handle it, you are doing yourself and those others involved a disservice...