Shock and Awe (disambiguation)

Last updated February 22, 2019

Shock and awe is a military doctrine based on the use of overwhelming power, dominant battlefield awareness, dominant maneuvers, and spectacular displays of force to paralyze an adversary's perception of the battlefield and destroy its will to fight.

Shock and awe is a tactic based on the use of overwhelming power and spectacular displays of force to paralyze the enemy's perception of the battlefield and destroy its will to fight. Though the concept has a variety of historical precedent, the doctrine was explained by Harlan K. Ullman and James P. Wade in 1996 and was developed specifically for application by the US military by the National Defense University of the United States.

Shock and Awe may also refer to:

Shock and Awe Campaign, the initial bombing campaign of the 2003 invasion of Iraq
Shock and Awe (album), a 2003 album by stand-up comedian Bill Hicks
Shock and Awe (film), a 2017 American drama film
"Shockandawe", a 2017 single by Miguel
Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity , a 2011 British documentary TV series
"Shock and Awe", the tenth campaign mission of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare .

The 2003 invasion of Iraq was the first stage of the Iraq War. The invasion phase began on 20 March 2003 and lasted just over one month, including 21 days of major combat operations, in which a combined force of troops from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Poland invaded Iraq. This early stage of the war formally ended on 1 May 2003 when U.S. President George W. Bush declared the "End of Major Combat Operations", after which the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) was established as the first of several successive transitional governments leading up to the first Iraqi parliamentary election in January 2005. U.S. military forces later remained in Iraq until the withdrawal in 2011.

<i>Shock and Awe</i> (album) 2003 live album by Bill Hicks

Shock and Awe is a live recording posthumously released by stand-up comedian and satirist Bill Hicks in 2003 on New York-based Invasion Records. It was recorded at the Oxford Playhouse, and is an abridged version of the album Salvation.

Shock and Awe is a 2017 American drama film directed by Rob Reiner and written by Joey Hartstone. The film stars Woody Harrelson, Tommy Lee Jones, James Marsden, Milla Jovovich, and Jessica Biel, and follows a group of journalists at Knight Ridder's Washington Bureau who investigate the reasons behind the Bush Administration's 2003 invasion of Iraq. The film had its world premiere at the Zurich Film Festival on September 30, 2017 and was released through DirecTV Cinema on June 14, 2018, before having a limited release on July 13, 2018, by Vertical Entertainment.

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