The weapons of war
This war may be fought with some relatively nontraditional weapons.
Another piece from the Monitor: a set of articles about depleted uranium ammunition. "NATO used ammunition and weaponry made of depleted uranium during its air strikes on Yugoslavia in 1999. Suspicious deaths and illnesses among Europeans exposed to the substance are prompting investigators to examine DU's health risks. The United States has denied any link between illnesses and exposure to depleted uranium."
Meanwhile, there's fear that Saddam Hussein could blow up dams to impede American troops' progress:
The dam in Qadisiyah, near Baghdad, holds billions of gallons of water and, if blown, would create a skyscraper wall of water crushing and killing for dozens of miles, analysts say.
That article also talks about the possibility that the Iraqis might set oil wells on fire again.
Some fascinating weapons that I haven't heard anything else about are discussed in an article from Australian newspaper The Age:
The new non-lethal weapons include the Blackout bomb, which throw out a confetti of tiny carbon filaments which fall over power lines and transformers short-circuiting power stations and electricity networks.
The Pentagon hopes that the star of the show will be the E-bomb, a high-powered microwave bomb sending out a powerful pulse, which can disable electrical and electronic circuits.
And, of course, there will also be more conventional weapons available (though bigger than in the past), such as the "Mother Of All Bombs" that everyone keeps talking about, the biggest non-nuclear bomb in the world.