Portuguese translation: força e surpresa (OU surpresa, rapidez e força)/ guerra-relâmpago
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22:09 May 27, 2011
English to Portuguese translations [PRO] Military / Defense / tactics
English term or phrase:Shock and awe / Rapid dominance
Shock and awe (technically known as rapid dominance) 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.
Explanation: [23] A estratégia empregue na Guerra do Iraque 2003, desde logo denominada de “Shock and Awe”, constitui a operacionalização de um conceito de ataques paralelos, em simultâneo e de forma rápida e precisa, produzindo efeitos devastadores, tanto físicos como psicológicos. O “choque e o temor” são alcançados não apenas em função do número de alvos destruídos, mas como resultado da destruição ou neutralização, num curto espaço de tempo, de um número significativo de alvos críticos para o funcionamento do adversário como sistema. http://www.jornaldefesa.com.pt/conteudos/view_txt.asp?id=397
António Ribeiro Local time: 06:40 Works in field Native speaker of: Portuguese PRO pts in category: 24
impacto e intimidação (impacto e terror)/ domínio rápido
Explanation: Sug.
- Shock and awe" is the term the Bush administration uses for its massive hi-tech air strikes on the Iraqis. As a military strategy, it is discussed at length in a 1996 book published by the Command and Control Research Program (CCRP) within the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense of the United States.[1] Titled Shock and Awe: Achieving Rapid Dominance, the book describes shock and awe as a strategy "aimed at influencing the will, perception, and understanding of an adversary rather than simply destroying military capability."[2] In this respect, shock and awe bears a striking similarity to terrorism as propaganda, in which psychological rather than material dominance is viewed as a primary war objective. (The terrorist attacks of September 11 also induced "shock and awe" in the U.S. population.)... www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?...Shock_and_awe
- 14 Abr 2008 ... Fue profesor de Colin Powell y creador de la teoría del Shock and Awe (Impacto e Intimidación), que no es otra cosa que inducir por medio de ... www.aporrea.org/actualidad/a55074.html
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Marcos Antonio Local time: 17:40 Specializes in field Native speaker of: Portuguese PRO pts in category: 56
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