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A strategy of rapidly decapitating leadership, destroying military capacity, and destroying war production.
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shock and awe
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...war. Okay? So America, in round one, tried to use shock and awe. Shock and awe is basically, you decapitate the leadership, you destroy..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...war. Okay? So America, in round one, tried to use shock and awe. Shock and awe is basically, you decapitate the leadership, you destroy..."
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Glossary
A military doctrine Jiang summarizes as decapitating the enemy by cutting off the head so the body falls.
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A post-2003 U.S. military doctrine Jiang describes as substituting air supremacy, technological omniscience, and special forces for traditional mass, supply, and public-support requirements.
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The American warfighting capability Jiang associates with air supremacy, satellite surveillance, and special forces, making open attack on America suicidal for Iran.
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diagnosis
He says U.S. shock and awe against Iran has failed because Iranian leadership, military, and factories are decentralized or hidden after 20 years of preparation.
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Shock and awe fails against Iran because decentralized command and religious total war mean cutting off Tehran's head does not stop the rest of the body.
model
He argues that the U.S. military shifted after 2003 to shock and awe, a doctrine that relies on air supremacy, technological omniscience, and special forces to fight cheaply and quickly without the old public-support requirement.
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Jiang argues that once the U.S.-led force appears ready to strike Tehran, the war has already been won by Iran because the invasion has violated basic traditional military doctrine.
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In Jiang's reading, Nicias tried to deter the Athenians by demanding a massive expedition, but the warning backfired and made the Athenians embrace a shock-and-awe expedition.
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Jiang says Iran cannot fight America in the open because U.S. shock and awe gives America air supremacy, satellite visibility, and special forces capabilities.
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definition
Jiang defines shock and awe as a doctrine that treats armies as hierarchies: cut off the head through air power, surveillance, and special forces, and the body collapses.
diagnosis
Jiang says the apparent success of the 2003 Iraq invasion made an initially unrealistic doctrine look confirmed: it was quick, relatively cheap for the United States, and decisive.
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"...war. Okay? So America, in round one, tried to use shock and awe. Shock and awe is basically, you decapitate the leadership, you destroy..."
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"These past weeks have shown shock and awe doesn't really work, but they don't know what else to do. So they keep on doing..."
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"Um, I think the way this war is going, this plan will work. And the reason why is they will, the American military has..."
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"...quick and easy war that fit the American military of shock and awe. Um, Iran is simply different and the American military does not..."
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"...and all there was tremendous military pushback against destruction of shock and awe basically um Donald Rumsfeld who was the Secretary of Defense at..."
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"...adopted its shock and all policy now the problem with shock and awe is that people forget but at that time in 2003 Iraq..."
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"the main adversary to Iran in the Middle East so why would they do that that would be just be insane and honestly they..."
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"...military logistics network and so the americans are good at shock and awe they're good at air wars a quick in and out they're..."
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"Empire is the, it's an aura of invincibility and inviability. Okay? If you fear it, then you obey it. But, it's not really designed..."
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"...so, the Americans and the Israelis use something we call shock and awe. And the very idea of shock and awe is you decapitate..."
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"So, Iraq was a desert, which makes it ideal for an air campaign. And this war was wrapped up in two weeks' time. There's..."
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"You said three weeks in your lecture, that they bragged that it was three weeks to— Yeah, two or three weeks."
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