The Lawyers, Guns and Money Doctrine was announced on July 1, 2014, by Walsh the Beloved of the Screaming Red Asses to define the scope of current and future treaties of the Red Asses. It represented a change from the previous Red Ass foreign policy of only signing Optional Defense and Aggression Pacts, which was designed to ensure that coalition warfare would never be forced upon the Red Asses. The Lawyers, Guns and Money Doctrine represented the same philosophy with considerably more freedom.