More on Fallujah

Wretchard at Belmont Club has some good analysis (as always) on the events taking place in Fallujah. The whole thing is interesting, but this little bit caught my eye:

Capabilities which didn't exist on September 11 have now been deployed in combat. It isn't that American forces have become inconceivably lethal that is scary; it is that the process has just started.

In many ways, the American military is a very scary thing. While I strongly believe that America is a force for good in the world, the sheer level of discrepancy between our capabilities and that of most other nations is amazing, and as someone who distrusts concentration of power on principle, a little scary. What is interesting though is that too a large degree the American Military hadn't really focused on assymetrical warfare before Sept 11. Obviously we had paid some attention to it, but this was mostly in the form of tactics and training. Now we are putting a vast effort into R&D to develop technical edges in this sort of fighting.