1.   And yet the very concept of overwhelming force in post-Cold War conflict has many critics.

2.   Any military activity should have clear and clearly achievable goals, should enjoy strong popular support, and should involve overwhelming force to assure certain and prompt victory.

3.   As we consider the overwhelming force that could soon be launched, we need to keep in mind who the enemy really is.

4.   After the Persian Gulf War, Bush declared that the United States would not even retaliate in kind against a chemical attack but would respond with overwhelming conventional force.

5.   But it seems apparent that military leaders, sickened by the defeat of Russian forces in Grozny, are eager to strike back with overwhelming force and firepower.

6.   But local Dagestan officials urged Moscow to use overwhelming force.

7.   But peacekeeping poses a difficult challenge to an Army whose traditional mission has been ground combat and whose standard doctrine has been that of overwhelming force.

8.   But once President Bush and the allies decided to fight, Powell helped devise a strategy of using overwhelming force.

9.   But the President would allow the top generals to set strategy, gave them the overwhelming forces they requested and allowed them to decide when it would stop.

10.   Chaitram Singh, a Kaltech Industries employee who was in the basement when the explosion went off, remembered little except a blinding flash and an overwhelming force.