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| shock and awe |
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quick paralyzing assault: a very rapid, selective strike against an enemy's military command-and-control networks, political hierarchy, and economic assets, designed to paralyze the nation's counteroffensive options and to render the decision-making structure psychologically inoperative
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| [Late 20th century. Possibly from a 1996 National Defense University study titled "Shock and Awe: Achieving Rapid Dominance" by Harlan K. Ullman, James P. Wade, et al.] |
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