Shock and Awe

nuclear detonationBest name for a military strategy ever? CBS News | Iraq Faces Massive U.S. Missile Barrage | January 27, 2003 10:43:24: "It's called "Shock and Awe" and it focuses on the psychological destruction of the enemy's will to fight rather than the physical destruction of his military forces."

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