I think it should be evident to everyone by now that "shock and awe" was a total RUSE to make everyone think we were going to do a 1991-type Baghdad bombing. The RG kept waiting for "shock and awe" while we moved 90,000 men into their SUBURBS.
We all should be chastened (I bought into it too, for a while) and remember how Schwartzkopf USED the media in 1991 to set up a phoney "amphibious" invasion and the "hey diddle diddle, right up the middle" strategy. We've all been had, and I'm glad we were!
True it may have been a RUSE for the media, but I don't think the RGs that are left would describe it that way. ;)