"Shock and awe"

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   "Shock and awe" is being used in GW2.  It was used in GW1.  I don't have
my extensive databases handy.
   Here is a book title, followed by a Google Groups discussion:

Call #  <A HREF="http://catnyp.nypl.org/search/cREADEX+Microfiche+D+5.402:SH+7/creadex+microfiche+d+5+402+sh+7/-5,-1,0,E/2browse">READEX Microfiche D 5.402:SH 7</A>
Author  <A HREF="http://catnyp.nypl.org/search/aUllman%2C+Harlan./aullman+harlan/-5,-1,0,B/browse">Ullman, Harlan.</A>
Title   Shock and awe [microform] : achieving rapid dominance / Harlan K.
Ullman and James P. Wade ; with L.A. "Bud" Edney ... [et al.].
Imprint Washington, DC : Center for Advanced Concepts and Technology, [1996]

LOCATION    CALL #  STATUS
  SIBL   READEX Microfiche D 5.402:SH 7
Location    SIBL
Govt. doc#  D 5.402:SH 7
Descript    xxi, 199 p. ; 23 cm.
Note    Distributed to depository libraries in microfiche.
    Shipping list no.: 98-0249-M.
    G.P.O. sales statement incorrect in publication.
    "First printing, November 1996"--T.p. verso.
    Microfiche. [Washington, D.C.] : Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., [1998] 3
microfiches : negative.
    s 1998 dcu n b
Subject <A HREF="http://catnyp.nypl.org/search/dRapid+dominance+(Military+science)/drapid+dominance+military+science/-5,-1,0,B/browse">Rapid dominance (Military science)</A>
    <A HREF="http://catnyp.nypl.org/search/dAwe./dawe/-5,-1,0,B/browse">Awe.</A>
Add'l name  <A HREF="http://catnyp.nypl.org/search/aNational+Defense+University.+Center+for+Advanced+Concepts+and+Technology./anational+defense+university+center+for+advanced+concepts+and+technology/-5,-1,0,B/browse">National Defense University. Center for Advanced Concepts and
Technology.</A>
Alt title   Shock & awe


From: <A HREF="http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=author:wjb3%40mindspring.com+">Billy Beck</A> (<A HREF="mailto:wjb3%40mindspring.com">wjb3 at mindspring.com</A>)
Subject: "Shock and Awe" (Was: That Dipshit's "No more Wacos?")
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Date: 2000-10-26 14:46:51 PST

 (A note pertinent to the hole into which Doktor Erb bumbled inthe thread
where he drew his ridiculous appalling equivocation between Waco and
Hiroshima.  This addresses aspects of the later nuclear weapons rubbish.)" '
Shock and Awe' (sometimes also called 'Rapid Dominance') - a relatively
simple concept - is one of the foundations of an understanding of the coming
revolution in military affairs.In war, the goal is to make the enemy accede
to your will, tomake him do what you want him to do.  Traditionally, you
accomplish this by destroying his means to resist, as we did with Germany
inWorld War II, but that is not the only way way.  For example, why not catch
his attention in such a way that he is *unwilling* to resistyou?  In World
War II, Japan was worn down as Germany was, but not tothe point of total
surrender.  Then a pair of A-bombs induced suchshock into the nation, causing
the enemy to hold us in such awe, that they surrendered rather than conduct a
bloody defense of the home islands.In the Gulf in February 1991, Iraqi
soldiers were in a state ofshock and awe, and surrendered."(Tom Clancy & Gen.
Chuck Horner, "Every Man A Tiger", 1999,emphasis original)The brief on this
passage is that it draws the proper doctrinalcomparison between the WW II
nuclear strikes and what some saw as a"Revolution In Military Affairs" in the
Gulf War, but what was reallyonly a revolution in *technology* serving the
very samehalf-century-old doctrine.  Hiroshima and Nagasaki are, in proper
historic perspective, avatars of the fulfillment of the genera laspirations
of airpower since its beginning, manifest in the advent ofprecision munitions
coupled with unprecedented battlefield awareness wrought with technology of
AWACS and JSTARS.  To all practicalpurposes, the Iraqi invaders might as well
have been nuked en masse:every conventional bomb that fell was exactly that
powerful by virtue of its (to the victims) uncanny timing over traditional
tactical maneuvering (which should have made knowledge of where and when tos
trike extremely difficult if not impossible) and plain accuracy.These two
aspects combined to make the results of conventiona lmunitions (including
precision guided, distinct from nukes) as powerful as nukes in their
generation of "shock and awe" among the enemy.That was the point of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki.Given the *fact* of that war, I see no way around it.BillyVRWC
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