No doubt, but rather than an example of US war-fighting superiority, it typifies the lack of thought behind how that superiority is deployed. It may be true that Scarborough Shoal could dropped back below sea level in fifteen minutes but the political and economic fallout would ensue for the rest of the century. And for what? To back a territorial claim of one group of Orientals who don't particularly like us over a different group who don't either?