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Cover Story: Iraqi Rebels - The New Iraqi Way of War

by Sydney J Freedberg Jr
Saturday, June 9, 2007


On March 19, 2003, the United States unleashed a new form of warfare in Iraq. While the world watched on TV, smart bombs zeroed in on targets pinpointed by long-range sensors, savaging Iraqi troops far from any front line. "Shock and awe" killed many Iraqis outright and paralyzed the rest, leaving them unable to evade American firepower or to strike back at tormentors they could rarely see. It seemed the triumph of what then-candidate George W. Bush had hailed in 1999 as "a revolution in the technology of war [in which] force is projected on the long arc of precision-guided weapons."


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