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For other uses, see Shock and Awe (disambiguation).
Shock and awe (technically known as rapid dominance) is a military doctrine based on the use of overwhelming power, dominant battlefield awareness, dominant maneuvers, and spectacular displays of force to paralyze an adversary's perception of the battlefield and destroy its will to fight. The doctrine was written by Harlan K. Ullman and James P. Wade in 1996 and is a product of the National Defense University of the United States.
(Perhaps inevitably, the 1996 originated term <'Shock & Awe'> has been - especially since the 2002-2003 attack on Baghdad - used <more or less accurately> in many different subjective applications and figures of speech. - Opening Poster's editorial commentary)
Contents
1 Doctrine of rapid dominance 1.1 Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure
2 Historical applications
3 In popular culture
7 External links
Doctrine of rapid dominance[edit]
Rapid Dominance is defined by its authors, Harlan K. Ullman and James P. Wade, as attempting "to affect the will, perception, and understanding of the adversary to fight or respond to our strategic policy- ends through imposing a regime of Shock and Awe."
Further, rapid dominance will "impose this overwhelming level of Shock and Awe against an adversary on an immediate or sufficiently timely basis to paralyze its will to carry on . . . [to] seize control of the environment and paralyze or so overload an adversary's perceptions and understanding of events that the (designated, real or imagined) enemy would be incapable of resistance at the tactical and strategic levels."[2]
Introducing the doctrine in a report to the United States' National Defense University in 1996, Ullman and Wade describe it as an attempt to develop a post-Cold War military doctrine for the United States. Rapid dominance and shock and awe, they write, may become a "revolutionary change" as the United States military is reduced in size and information technology is increasingly integrated into warfare.[3] Subsequent U.S. military authors have written that rapid dominance exploits the "superior technology, precision engagement, and information dominance" of the United States.[4]
Ullman and Wade identify four vital characteristics of rapid dominance: "near total or absolute knowledge and understanding of self, adversary, and environment; rapidity and timeliness in application; operational brilliance in execution; and (near) total control and signature management of the entire operational environment."[5] Shock and awe is most consistently used by Ullman and Wade as the effect that rapid dominance seeks to impose upon an adversary. It is the desired state of helplessness and lack of will. It can be induced, they write, by direct force applied to command and control centers, selective denial of information and dissemination of disinformation, overwhelming combat force, and rapidity of action.
The doctrine of rapid dominance has evolved from the concept of "decisive force". Ullman and Wade enumerate the elements between the two concepts in terms of objective, use of force, force size, scope, speed, casualties, and technique.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure
End of Wikipedia excerpts.
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As the title of this thread directly implies, 'Shock & Awe' has already become an improvised figure of speech to be reckoned with:
Although neither Von Clausewitz ('On War'- 1876), nor Sun Tzu ('The Art of War' - pre Christian publication in China), exercise the term ('Shock & Awe'), the applied practice of it is referenced by both authors.
A much more recent publication is authored by one of the co-founders of *that specific term: 'Shock and Awe', by Harlan K. Ullman.
*Shock and Awe can be and has been applied to criminal batteries and physical beatings, including those carried out by one or more persons against rape victims, including children. It's meaning - without the descriptive term itself - can be correctly applied to any physical and/or psychological overwhelming force, as it is projected upon, perceived, and/or directly experienced by whatever being or environment it is projected upon. Certainly the practice has been around much longer than the *terminology that describes it; just as 'Post Traumatic Stress Disorder' has existed long before there was any term-for or academic/medical-address to it (*Refer, The Perfect Storm, by Sebastian Junger).
With regard to the subject of Shock & Awe as it is recently improvised and used against - especially combat - veterans: The Homeland Security and Patriot Acts exhibit a grotesque language of attack upon veterans. Specifically in the brandishing of such language as: 'Returning veterans may be a threat to the nation', and, 'Veterans with combat skills may be recruited by Right Wing or Terrorist elements.' - Paraphrased.
It seems that 'normalized' rogue elements of the federal government are swiftly advancing to include the Bureau of Veterans Affairs (Vets Administration), which federal facility's and employees are being controlled by their New World Order compromised policy makers in Washington, D.C., to adopt and practice a (not so well hidden; increasingly more bold and aggressive) agenda of *seizing ordinance (hunting and home defense firearms) and other targeted property from post-active-service veterans; who are beginning to respond as those who have been forewarned (Refer, '...the 2nd Amendment making of a well regulated militia of citizens,' the 4th Amendment of 'Right to Privacy'; the 10th Amendment enactment of *'State Sovereignty', *which has already been declared by Texas and Alaska, and is not 'secession from the Union'.).
*These seizures are already being carried out without due cause or due process of the courts, in the guise of hurriedly conjured-up, improvised and activated - United States Constitution sacking - 'medical holds'. In the language of the post-9.11.01 published Homeland Security/Patriot Act, and in accordance with President G.W. Bush's speech the day after 9/11 ('You are either for us or against us!'), the disarmament of law abiding American citizens is a high priority on the culminating *New World Order (*'One Government, One Military, One Religion', Etceteras) agenda, as it is being carried out via The White House. The Homeland Security Act's call to Patriotism clarifies that quite anyone at all 'might be' a terrorist. (How are things in your neighborhood, lately?)
For other uses, see Shock and Awe (disambiguation).
Shock and awe (technically known as rapid dominance) is a military doctrine based on the use of overwhelming power, dominant battlefield awareness, dominant maneuvers, and spectacular displays of force to paralyze an adversary's perception of the battlefield and destroy its will to fight. The doctrine was written by Harlan K. Ullman and James P. Wade in 1996 and is a product of the National Defense University of the United States.
(Perhaps inevitably, the 1996 originated term <'Shock & Awe'> has been - especially since the 2002-2003 attack on Baghdad - used <more or less accurately> in many different subjective applications and figures of speech. - Opening Poster's editorial commentary)
Contents
1 Doctrine of rapid dominance 1.1 Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure
2 Historical applications
3 In popular culture
7 External links
Doctrine of rapid dominance[edit]
Rapid Dominance is defined by its authors, Harlan K. Ullman and James P. Wade, as attempting "to affect the will, perception, and understanding of the adversary to fight or respond to our strategic policy- ends through imposing a regime of Shock and Awe."
Further, rapid dominance will "impose this overwhelming level of Shock and Awe against an adversary on an immediate or sufficiently timely basis to paralyze its will to carry on . . . [to] seize control of the environment and paralyze or so overload an adversary's perceptions and understanding of events that the (designated, real or imagined) enemy would be incapable of resistance at the tactical and strategic levels."[2]
Introducing the doctrine in a report to the United States' National Defense University in 1996, Ullman and Wade describe it as an attempt to develop a post-Cold War military doctrine for the United States. Rapid dominance and shock and awe, they write, may become a "revolutionary change" as the United States military is reduced in size and information technology is increasingly integrated into warfare.[3] Subsequent U.S. military authors have written that rapid dominance exploits the "superior technology, precision engagement, and information dominance" of the United States.[4]
Ullman and Wade identify four vital characteristics of rapid dominance: "near total or absolute knowledge and understanding of self, adversary, and environment; rapidity and timeliness in application; operational brilliance in execution; and (near) total control and signature management of the entire operational environment."[5] Shock and awe is most consistently used by Ullman and Wade as the effect that rapid dominance seeks to impose upon an adversary. It is the desired state of helplessness and lack of will. It can be induced, they write, by direct force applied to command and control centers, selective denial of information and dissemination of disinformation, overwhelming combat force, and rapidity of action.
The doctrine of rapid dominance has evolved from the concept of "decisive force". Ullman and Wade enumerate the elements between the two concepts in terms of objective, use of force, force size, scope, speed, casualties, and technique.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure
End of Wikipedia excerpts.
____________________________
As the title of this thread directly implies, 'Shock & Awe' has already become an improvised figure of speech to be reckoned with:
Although neither Von Clausewitz ('On War'- 1876), nor Sun Tzu ('The Art of War' - pre Christian publication in China), exercise the term ('Shock & Awe'), the applied practice of it is referenced by both authors.
A much more recent publication is authored by one of the co-founders of *that specific term: 'Shock and Awe', by Harlan K. Ullman.
*Shock and Awe can be and has been applied to criminal batteries and physical beatings, including those carried out by one or more persons against rape victims, including children. It's meaning - without the descriptive term itself - can be correctly applied to any physical and/or psychological overwhelming force, as it is projected upon, perceived, and/or directly experienced by whatever being or environment it is projected upon. Certainly the practice has been around much longer than the *terminology that describes it; just as 'Post Traumatic Stress Disorder' has existed long before there was any term-for or academic/medical-address to it (*Refer, The Perfect Storm, by Sebastian Junger).
With regard to the subject of Shock & Awe as it is recently improvised and used against - especially combat - veterans: The Homeland Security and Patriot Acts exhibit a grotesque language of attack upon veterans. Specifically in the brandishing of such language as: 'Returning veterans may be a threat to the nation', and, 'Veterans with combat skills may be recruited by Right Wing or Terrorist elements.' - Paraphrased.
It seems that 'normalized' rogue elements of the federal government are swiftly advancing to include the Bureau of Veterans Affairs (Vets Administration), which federal facility's and employees are being controlled by their New World Order compromised policy makers in Washington, D.C., to adopt and practice a (not so well hidden; increasingly more bold and aggressive) agenda of *seizing ordinance (hunting and home defense firearms) and other targeted property from post-active-service veterans; who are beginning to respond as those who have been forewarned (Refer, '...the 2nd Amendment making of a well regulated militia of citizens,' the 4th Amendment of 'Right to Privacy'; the 10th Amendment enactment of *'State Sovereignty', *which has already been declared by Texas and Alaska, and is not 'secession from the Union'.).
*These seizures are already being carried out without due cause or due process of the courts, in the guise of hurriedly conjured-up, improvised and activated - United States Constitution sacking - 'medical holds'. In the language of the post-9.11.01 published Homeland Security/Patriot Act, and in accordance with President G.W. Bush's speech the day after 9/11 ('You are either for us or against us!'), the disarmament of law abiding American citizens is a high priority on the culminating *New World Order (*'One Government, One Military, One Religion', Etceteras) agenda, as it is being carried out via The White House. The Homeland Security Act's call to Patriotism clarifies that quite anyone at all 'might be' a terrorist. (How are things in your neighborhood, lately?)
