Nixon Doctrine

noun

1. the policy declared by President Nixon in 1969 that the U.S. would supply arms but not military forces to its allies in Asia and elsewhere.

Example Sentences

The core of what came to be known as the Nixon Doctrine was the arming of regional surrogates, countries with sympathetic rulers or governments that could promote U.S. interests without major contingents of the American military being on hand.

From Salon

In the midst of the disastrous Vietnam War, the Nixon Doctrine tried to pass on much of global enforcement there and elsewhere to subservient allies.

From Salon

Behind the performers onstage are three large screens with projections of period imagery: bombs, faces of refugees, even a clip of President Nixon saying, “Cambodia is the Nixon Doctrine in its purest form.”

From New York Times

In a way we are back to the Nixon Doctrine of America acting through regional allies.

From New York Times

A summary of some of Mamdani’s key arguments can be found in this like-named essay, where he cites 1975 as a turning-point year: America’s defeat in Indochina, the collapse of the Portuguese empire in Africa, and the shift in Cold War focus to apply the Nixon Doctrine, that “Asian boys must fight Asian wars,” in Southern Africa, both to prop up apartheid South Africa, and to partner with them:

From Salon