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The new president does seem interested in using Obama's toolkit of quasi-surgical assaults rather than overwhelming force for now, Ward noted.

Although Hood and his men were commended at the time, subsequent historical focus has been on the bravery of the inexperienced French crews in resisting an attack by an overwhelming force for so long.

Later, there was an even louder sound for this overwhelming force of a franchise, which keeps adding to its legend on a nightly basis.

Mr. Cordesman was referring to the former secretary of state and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who enunciated a military doctrine of using overwhelming force, but for clear political ends.

The first is the glorification of violence almost for its own sake and the imagery of young men – "lions" – fighting heroically against the almost overwhelming forces of injustice.

First, those officials said, Mr. Rumsfeld again thought the generals' call for overwhelming force reflected uneasiness about the war itself.

It was Powell, Mann reminds us, who led the way, confident that the mission would stick to his eponymous doctrine's specifications for overwhelming force.

Going back to some heavy-handed, even illegal, tactics at the 2004 Republican National Convention, Kelly's reign has been marked by an almost Colin Powell-esque affection for overwhelming force.

But he did note a slight mutation away from the Powell approach: When air campaigns can be conducted with no American casualties and no American ground troops, there is "another generation of thinking that is not inconsistent with the doctrine of using overwhelming force -- and that is using force for more limited purposes but in a way that gives us overwhelming advantage," Mr. Berger said.

The overwhelming force, they said, was merely for self-protection: the surrounding province of Minya is still considered a bastion of Islamist support for Mr. Morsi.

The lesson is obvious: overwhelming force was the best chance for keeping Yugoslavia whole, and even that failed in the end.