[Dirk McQuickly]

World military academies will be dissecting this for years to come. Once a little distance is put between April 9th and the coming years, the words "shock and awe" will have a much different meaning. One-sixth of out military overran Iraq. The only counter seems to be an effective anti-air system, and that will require a serious leap in technology to challenge our air superiority.

Bravo, Bush, Franks, Rumsfeld, Rice, Wolfowitz, et al.

[Beck_isright]

Now that IS a compliment. Kudos to W's team.

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[week 71]

Israel is no stanger to shock and awe. They shocked and awe'ed the Arab world in six days, just 25 yrs ago.

[biblewonk]

Bravo, Bush, Franks, Rumsfeld, Rice, Wolfowitz, et al.

Amen!

[Hodar]

"This has been a very strange and unprecedented war and it will take us awhile to learn what took place,"

Simple, we played a game of 'Cowboys and Arabs'.

[JeeperFreeper]

Dear Despot( insert name here): If you are going to f*** with eagles, you'd better learn to fly.

[SBprone]

They are pretty darn good themselves and a lot better than they will admit.

[tomahawk]

The whole world is amazed and jealous!

[js1138]

The only counter seems to be an effective anti-air system, and that will require a serious leap in technology to challenge our air superiority.

We didn't even break a sweat in the air campaign. No use of EMPs, no tactical nukes. This is how we wage war against people we like, in full view of the press. Imagine if we were ticked off, or felt that out survival was in danger.

[eBelasco]

Key components of the strategy: pick a country that
1)is 20+ years behind you technologically
2)wants you to liberate them
3)has an army that will drop their guns at the first whiff of gunpowder
4)has no air defense capability beyond a few AAAs Meet those conditions, and execute your plan with complete excellence, and success will follow.

[Centurion2000]

The War College is going to have a field day with this one for the next couple of decades.

Never thought about it before but America has THE most battle hardened military in the world.

[kevao]

"We will have to learn from this war and draw the conclusions."

And then take out Syria, saving us the trouble.

[bedolido]

amazing article... thanks for posting

[epluribus_2]

I thought the rackies got a hold of some great anti-tank missles. And I thought they had silkworms. Were they overhyped duds? Anyone? I think a silkworm did actually hit a mall in kuwait. US Navy not exactly scared.

[AppyPappy]

The Israelis could do the same with their airpower if they wanted. We are going to find that anyone using US technology will rule the battlefield.

[BunnySlippers]

Bookmarking and bumping ...

[tiki]

The Americans were inspired. As a Christian I would say that they were inspired by God.

[cynicom]

It also helps a great deal when the enemy is a cruel dictatorship of long standing.

[Paraclete]

Last week on the Washington Report on CNBC they interviewed a fellow who gave insight into Rumsfeld's and other military leaders mindsets. I didn't get the name of the book he referred to, but the gist is responding so quickly that you get inside the enemies decision cycle, thus paralyzing them. It sounds like Rumsfeld and others really took the lesson to heart.

[TankerKC]

The only counter seems to be an effective anti-air system...

...one that is not susceptible to physical attack, computer network attack, jamming, spoofing, EMP bombs…good luck!