"Shock and Awe"

[Fred Shapiro]

"Shock and awe" seems likely to be the ADS "Most Outrageous" term for this
year.  Barry Popik said it was used in the first Gulf War, but searches on
Nexis, ProQuest/Westlaw, Google Groups and JSTOR turn up nothing before
Harlan K. Ullman & James P. Wade's 1996 book, Shock and Awe - Achieving
Rapid Dominance.  Does anyone have evidence of any pre-1996 usage?

Fred Shapiro


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