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Meet Mr. "Shock and Awe"

Harlan Ullman says they're doing it wrong.

By |Updated Tuesday, April 1, 2003, at 6:39 PM

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Are Ullman's criticisms legitimate, or is he merely protecting his theory from a potentially devastating real-world test? We can't know. Certainly, there can't be anyone in the Pentagon who disagrees that achieving all these goals would be very helpful to the war effort. But even Ullman says he doesn't know whether they are achievable under the present circumstances. And it's anybody's guess as to whether they'd be sufficient.

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