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]]> By: rjpdh http://blog.oup.com/2010/02/avatar-military/#comment-156757 rjpdh Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:24:16 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=7515#comment-156757 The 1996 document, “Shock and Awe: Achieving Rapid Dominance" is a speculative and ulitmately marginal document that has no real authority within US military thinking. It's a thought piece more than anything else, and is certainly not official in the sense this article suggests. It is common for academics critical of US foreign policy to assume "shock and awe" has doctrinal status within US military thinking but it does not. It is equally common for such critics to suggest, "[the US] employed massive bombardment in a ruthless and brutal plan to quickly demoralize and defeat the opponent’s will" in Iraq. The US use of aerial bombardment in Iraq was measured and precise and even leaned on the ill-fated "decapitation" attempt to kill Saddam. The infrastructure damage to Iraq was largely a product of more than a decade of sanctions, though it is common for the ill-informed to attribute the damage to US "carpet" bombing, which in itself is an archaic WWII concept. One of the authors of the Shock and Awe document, Harlan Ullman, is on record stating his criticism that the US failed to use his "Shock and Awe" concept in the invasion of Iraq. The 1996 document, “Shock and Awe: Achieving Rapid Dominance” is a speculative and ulitmately marginal document that has no real authority within US military thinking. It’s a thought piece more than anything else, and is certainly not official in the sense this article suggests. It is common for academics critical of US foreign policy to assume “shock and awe” has doctrinal status within US military thinking but it does not. It is equally common for such critics to suggest, “[the US] employed massive bombardment in a ruthless and brutal plan to quickly demoralize and defeat the opponent’s will” in Iraq. The US use of aerial bombardment in Iraq was measured and precise and even leaned on the ill-fated “decapitation” attempt to kill Saddam. The infrastructure damage to Iraq was largely a product of more than a decade of sanctions, though it is common for the ill-informed to attribute the damage to US “carpet” bombing, which in itself is an archaic WWII concept.

One of the authors of the Shock and Awe document, Harlan Ullman, is on record stating his criticism that the US failed to use his “Shock and Awe” concept in the invasion of Iraq.

]]> By: Ino Martin http://blog.oup.com/2010/02/avatar-military/#comment-156729 Ino Martin Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:14:32 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=7515#comment-156729 Another liberal garbage! White guilt in full display!That's why as i black man i sometime laugh at them! No mention of saddam Hussien,9/11,or their internal conflict tat led to them open to attack!America is always at fault! Cameron is making another movie on Hiroshima,I bet he wouldn't mention Japanese attrocitie's or the fact that they attack first!America's bomb and the destruction to their environment is what would make the entire movie! No country with the power that America has would be as generous as they are! God Bless America and screw you all! Another liberal garbage!
White guilt in full display!That’s why as i black man i sometime laugh at them!
No mention of saddam Hussien,9/11,or their internal conflict tat led to them open to attack!America is always at fault!
Cameron is making another movie on Hiroshima,I bet he wouldn’t mention Japanese attrocitie’s or the fact that they attack first!America’s bomb and the destruction to their environment is what would make the entire movie!
No country with the power that America has would be as generous as they are!
God Bless America and screw you all!

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