Show of Force is a gentle way of doing it.
It is not new.
Miss PN. studying air power, found an IO's report asking for a pilot to be courts martialled.
The ROE required that no ordnance be expended at a particular village unless there was a request for CAS or they were known hostile.
The pilot's report said he saw obvious signs of preparation for an ambush but had no way of warning an friendly column approaching the village. He gave a SOF overflying the village at very low level. Eventually, after 2 1/2 hours they shot at him and he bombed them.
The IO wanted him CMd for breaking ROE.
That was in Mesopotamia in the '20s.