[FairWitness]

The author should do his homework. Achieving shock and awe on the battlefield has been around a lot longer than this. Sun Tzu gives examples for achieving it.

You credit him with trying to make a historical point, when he is more likely trying to make a political point.

[Prodigal Son]

You credit him with trying to make a historical point, when he is more likely trying to make a political point.

I don't know. He sounded pretty specific when he said:

The originator of the policy of "shock and awe" was not a Pentagon employee but Giulio Douchet, an Italian advocate of air power in the 1930s.