Word: kineticism
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Unshocked, Unawed The new strategy, with its limits on actions that risk civilian casualties, represents a sea change in U.S. military doctrine. It was only six years ago that Air Force General Richard Myers, then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, predicted that a shock-and-awe strategy would...
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This isn't just for the duration of this operation, but the remainder of the war. They are not prohibited [from using aerial bombardment], and there are cases where we will absolutely use kinetic operations, and there are times when that will be required. But that will not be the...
You know, you drive into an area and an IED kills some of your comrades. The emotional response is to lash out. It is absolutely the wrong response. And so the degree with which we can build maturity and restraint - there is a time to kill, but that time is...
And as for that kinetic contraption, it was a "five-year development program, in its 14th year, not a single flight test, little work on the third stage or the kill vehicle, etc., etc., no known launch platform ..."