That has been possible in the past only by the application of overwhelming and brutal force.
It will be "characterized by shock, by surprise, by flexibility and by the employment of precise munitions on a scale never before seen, and by the application of overwhelming force".
The institutional Army has a certain, almost reflexive impulse in preparing for war, embedded in the Powell doctrine, which insists upon a set of criteria, including the application of overwhelming force.
With the President insisting that the attack will be a limited one, and that it isn't intended to overthrow or decapitate Assad's regime, Powell's third criteria for success — the application of overwhelming power — has been ruled out.
Rupert Smith, a former British general, argues that conflict resolution is increasingly about the early and precise deployment of small forces to defuse trouble, rather than the army-smashing application of overwhelming might.
"The history of the American military ever since Ulysses S. Grant has been about the use of mass and firepower and 'redundancy' — the application of overwhelming force," said Larry K Smith, a defense strategist who was Counsellor to both Les Aspin and William Perry, the Secretaries of Defense during Bill Clinton's first term.
The appeal to strong government does not imply the application of overwhelming force.
Also, there are overwhelming safety concerns surrounding the application of transfected recombinant DNA in human clinical therapy, which is required to achieve intrabody expression within the cell.
Despite recent interest in these nonparametric methods, the overwhelming majority of applications of discrimination and classification still rely on various parametric assumptions.
Release of natural enemies was the overwhelming first choice among control options and application of chemical insecticides was least favored.
Genetic modulation to direct stem cell differentiation would obviate prolonged durations of in vitro culture; but there are overwhelming safety concerns with regards to the application of recombinant DNA technology in human clinical therapy.
