Let’s summarize what you have learned in this lesson:

• Doctrine is a belief, or set of beliefs, held by an organization about the best way to do things. FEMA's doctrine is driven by the organization's mission.
• FEMA doctrine hierarchy includes (in order or higher hierarchy) Capstone, Keystone, Operational Manuals, and Procedures.
• Key FEMA doctrine includes the Pub 1, IMSK, NISM, RISM, IAP Guide, and IMH.
• Incident support refers to regional and national level operations and applies a MACS.
• Incident management refers to incident level operations and applies the ICS.

Now that you’ve learned about FEMA doctrine, you will learn more about FEMA incident support in the next lesson.