Read Bob Gates book about his time as SecDef - sort of - “you think it was bad from where you sat, you should have seen it from where I sat.” The whole pentagon was organized for the acquisition of systems to fight the wars that went on in their heads and not the wars that were actually taking place on the ground getting soldiers killed every day. MRAP was about the most unpopular acquisition the Pentagon ever executed except among the soldier’s who had to ride around in them, finally protected from IEDs.
MRAPs of which a sizable number are now property of ISIS ... Civilians always think that war toys are designed and built by people who know what is needed and what they are going to be used for ... surprise! They are build to further some self-serving, idiosyncratic dogma, gaining power and prestige for the Officers in Charge.