Word: awe
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...then hunting down their leaders, the U.S. is taking the reverse approach - beginning with a series of bombing raids aimed at taking out the ruling regime. The "decapitation" effort began in the early hours of the morning Baghdad time and was restarted later in the day. The shock and awe campaign, we are told, is still come...
...rose over Baghdad, state TV and radio remained on the air in a sign that the regime had not yet suffered the shock-and-awe effect. Later Thursday, Iraqi radio reported that the U.S. cruise missile assault had hit the Hussein family residence, but no one had been killed...
...first 48 hours of the war as were dropped in the entire 1991 Gulf War is designed to smash the regime's power centers and demonstrate to the Iraqi military that the regime they're deployed to defend has already ceased functioning. Washington hopes the "shock and awe" air campaign will prompt the bulk of the Iraqi military to allow the U.S. and its allies to occupy the country without a fight...
...Operation Iraqi Freedom" and Baghdad got pulverized. A massive air bombardment of Saddam Hussein's capital left the night sky burning bright , in the first installment of the promised "shock-and-awe" air campaign that U.S. commanders had held off on for the past 48 hours. Like the attempted "decapitation" strike that targeted Saddam and the multi-layered propaganda effort that followed, the latest bombardment of Saddam's power centers is to destroy the enemy's will to resist (and capacity to communicate), rather than to physically eliminate his fighting forces...
...planners are trying to make that transition easier. They are betting that a ferocious opening volley--what they call a shock-and-awe campaign--would destroy Iraq's will to resist and quickly end Saddam's rule with little destruction to the country's infrastructure. Some officers have even grumbled that the war plan places too many transportation and power grids off limits as a sop to postwar needs. But if hostilities drag on, rebuilding Iraq could prove as costly and complicated as the four-year reconstruction of Hitler's Germany...