Wilf, normally the only place that DOS gets involved in military doctrine is if someone asks their opinion. It happened in the lead up to 3-24 but that is the only case I know of. It could happen if DOS has assigned an FSO to a doctrine writing schoolhouse. Amb Lou Nigro has had some input to Army doctrine from his time on the faculty of the Army War College. Amb (ret) Ed Corr has had some influence on COIN doctrine for both the Army and the USMC. there are some others but it is not systematic.

USAID's Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) developed a doctrine manual in the early 90s working with Army Civil Affairs. It would even fit in the pocket of BDU/ACU pants

On another note: There is a classic Military Review article from about 1980 entitled "Doctrine, Not Dogma" which sums up what ought to be. Finally, in this regard, let me summarize a comment from my first post on this topic - I call it Fishel's Law: Doctrine is written by slugs like us.

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JohnT