Iraqi War Could Be Quick Due to New Weapons

New US weaponry such as the microwave bomb could see Iraq defeated within two weeks, a Kuwaiti analyst has argued.

Shafeeq Ghabra, director of the Kuwait Centre for Strategic and Future Studies, said the new weapon, developed since the 1991 Gulf War, would have a major impact on Iraq resistance.

"It would jam communications fully and it would make it very hard to think, to react," he told ABC radio.

"A week or two would be the duration of that war."

The Iraqi army was demoralised and weaker than it had ever been, he added.

"It looks like [Iraq is] an empty shell and therefore to jam it and to bring such an enormous force ... its definitely something that will, kind of, break down."