Boldness has turned the tide in this war. After an initial burst of action in which the ground war started before the air war and Special Forces denied the Iraqi military large swaths of territory in the West and South, hesitation appeared to risk gripping U.S. warplanners. But after the sandstorms of March 27-29, the Pentagon and the White House threw any remaining overcaution to the wind. Boldness prevailed in the rapid advance of ground troops into the heart of Baghdad and in warplanners' intellectual confidence that a precision air campaign of record brevity had pummeled the enemy enough for...