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Date: Saturday, March 22, 2003, 5:11:48 PM
Subject: [rohrpost] shock and awe
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das buch zum angriff:
"Shock & Awe. Achieving Rapid Dominance." 1996.
http://www.dodccrp.org/shockIndex.html
kleine kostprobe:
"It is, of course, clear that U.S. military forces are currently the
most capable in the world and are likely to remain so for a long time
to come. Why then, many will ask, should we examine and even propose
major excursions and changes if the country occupies this position of
military superiority? For reasons noted in this study, we believe
that excursions are important if only to confirm the validity of
current defense approaches. There are several overrarching realities
that have led us to this conclusion. First, while everyone recognizes
that the Cold War has ended, there is not a consensus about what this
means for more precisely defining the nature of our future security
needs. Despite this absence of both clairvoyance and a galvanizing
external danger, the United States is actively examining new
strategic options and choices. The variety of conceptual efforts
underway in the Pentagon to deal with this uncertainty exemplifies
this reality. (...)
The aim of Rapid Dominance is to affect the will, perception, and
understanding of the adversary to fit or respond to our strategic
policy ends through imposing a regime of Shock and Awe. Clearly, the
traditional military aim of destroying, defeating, or neutralizing
the adversary's military capability is a fundamental and necessary
component of Rapid Dominance. Our intent, however, is to field a
range of capabilities to induce sufficient Shock and Awe to render
the adversary impotent. This means that physical and psychological
effects must be obtained.
Rapid Dominance would therefore provide the ability to control, on an
immediate basis, the entire region of operational interest and the
environment, broadly defined, in and around that area of interest.
Beyond achieving decisive force and dominant battlefield awareness,
we envisage Rapid Dominance producing a capability that can more
effectively and efficiently achieve the stated political or military
objectives underwriting the use of force by rendering the adversary
completely impotent.
In Rapid Dominance, "rapid" means the ability to move quickly before
an adversary can react. This notion of rapidity applies throughout
the spectrum of combat from pre-conflict deployment to all stages of
battle and conflict resolution.
"Dominance" means the ability to affect and dominate an adversary's
will both physically and psychologically. Physical dominance includes
the ability to destroy, disarm, disrupt, neutralize, and to render
impotent. Psychological dominance means the ability to destroy,
defeat, and neuter the will of an adversary to resist; or convince
the adversary to accept our terms and aims short of using force. The
target is the adversary's will, perception, and understanding. The
principal mechanism for achieving this dominance is through imposing
sufficient conditions of "Shock and Awe" on the adversary to convince
or compel it to accept our strategic aims and military objectives.
Clearly, deception, confusion, misinformation, and disinformation,
perhaps in massive amounts, must be employed.
(...)
Theoretically, the magnitude of Shock and Awe Rapid Dominance seeks
to impose (in extreme cases) is the non-nuclear equivalent of the
impact that the atomic weapons dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki had
on the Japanese. The Japanese were prepared for suicidal resistance
until both nuclear bombs were used. The impact of those weapons was
sufficient to transform both the mindset of the average Japanese
citizen and the outlook of the leadership through this condition of
Shock and Awe. The Japanese simply could not comprehend the
destructive power carried by a single airplane. This incomprehension
produced a state of awe.
(...)
The goals of achieving Rapid Dominance using Shock and Awe must be
compared with overwhelming force. "Rapid" implies the ability to
"own" the dimension of time-moving more quickly than an opponent,
operating within his decision cycle, and resolving conflict favorably
in a short period of time. "Dominance" means the ability to control a
situation totally.
(...)
Rapid Dominance must be all-encompassing. It will require the means
to anticipate and to counter all opposing moves. It will involve the
capability to deny an opponent things of critical value, and to
convey the unmistakable message that unconditional compliance is the
only available recourse. It will imply more than the direct
application of force. It will mean the ability to control the
environment and to master all levels of an opponent's activities to
affect will, perception, and understanding. This could include means
of communication, transportation, food production, water supply, and
other aspects of infrastructure as well as the denial of military
responses. Deception, misinformation, and disinformation are key
components in this assault on the will and understanding of the
opponent.
(...)
Finally, we argue that what is also new in this approach is the way
in which we attempt to integrate far more broadly strategy,
technology, and innovation to achieve Shock and Awe. It is this
interaction and focus which we think will provide the most
interesting results."
usw. usw.
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