Yes clear warnings Richard - Did Hamas give any after they no doubt noted the likelihood that some of their rockets were landing inside Gaza? (Roughly 1,000 of them) - Naw thought not - Hamas gave no warnings at all, after all why should they, they are a terrorist organisation and terrorist organisations do not give a flying f**k for civilians or civilian casualties.

Shock and Awe:
"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 the enemy's perception of the battlefield and destroy its will to fight. The doctrine was written by Harlan K. Ullman and James P. Wade in 1996 and is a product of the National Defense University of the United States."

Sorry Richard but the Vietnam War ended as far as the US was concerned in 1972 and as far as the Vietnamese were concerned in 1975. Tactical and Strategic Air power was deployed during the Vietnam War and both were successful - had the US been prepared to support the South with air power between 1972 and 1975 then the NVA would have succumbed to its effects just as their Viet Cong predecessors ( Failed Tet offensive in 1968 - after which the VC played very little part). First talks were the result of US bombing in the North and the mining of Haiphong.

Desert Storm - won by gaining air superiority, determined by air power
Bosnia & Kosovo - determined by air power
Sierra Leone - determined by air power
Afghanistan - determined by air power
Iraq - determined by air power
Libya - determined by air power
Mali - determined by air power
Syria - being determined by air power

In all of the above "shock and awe" was only ever applied once against Iraq in 1991