The 20,000 Jeep-Humvees have caused 56% of American casualties in Iraq.
A jeep is a jeep is a jeep is a jeep.
Make it bullet-proof against AK-47 fire and it is still an expensive jeep.
Armored Cars and full-scale Armored Personnel Carriers are the right tool. We have 4,500 M113 30,00-pound APCs unused. But help is on the way.
Under a $125 million contract, the Marines are buying 100 Cougar and 44 Buffalo armored trucks, called "MRAP" for Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles. Force Protection Inc. is producing 40 vehicles a month. BEA could turn out 500 a month, but there's no order.
Not to be obvious, but the 250 Cougar and Sufat-clone armored cars in Iraq have taken zip-zero KIA. EIDs by the dozens, but no KIA.
But nobody in The Hill or at POTUS cares. Their kids are at the beach.
Too bad the bribe-bastards didn't get behind the amrored vehicles.
When they herded behind the jeeps, America's effort in Iraq was doomed in an instant.
Try anything with the wrong tools. you will fail.
Killing 3,120 soldiers, 800 American mercenaries, and Lord Knows how many Iraqis -- yeah, that was for no good result. Buying a few dozen hulls a month ain't gonna turn it around.
Still, if you're a grunt its better than nothing. If any of the grunts get to use them. Maybe they're just to ferry around the VIPs.