Operation Iron Hammer: Shock and Awe II

U.S. forces in Baghdad launched the second consecutive night of counterinsurgency operations Nov. 13. Dubbed Operation Iron Hammer, the offensive has thus far relied on the physical and psychological use of overwhelming and technologically superior force to try to quell the guerrilla activity and the support for it. But the operation is only one piece of a larger puzzle to effect a mindset change both in Iraq and back in America.