Another article that's pessimistic about the chances for a quick and easy victory.

Argument The good news is that Allied units are unlikely to be surprised by large-scale armoured counter-attacks. The "battlespace" should be "transparent": there should be "total battlespace dominance". But a couple of snipers in the upper floors of a building will stop you having dominance.

Estimates of the number of Iraqi prisoners have been revised downwards to a couple of thousand. According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Iraq's armed forces numbered about 375,000 before the start of the war. Even with the most inflated estimate of Iraqi dead and prisoners, that still leaves about 370,000. This is not going to be a short war.