Shock & Awe

The signature phrase of this war is hardly recognizable after a little more than a week.

New military doctrine posits a most radical notion: war as an oxymoron, total limited war. The idea is that, given its great and unique advantages, the American military can wage a victorious war that is at once brutally effective in its killing power while being miserly of American life and property and of the enemy. It is limited war, so far. But it's hardly total.

 Posted by glenn