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Most of the attacks are against our logistics and support troops who drive in HUMMVV with little or no armor because during peacetime, combat units had first priority. One of the problems we have in DoD policy is we develop advanced and very expensive technology. When it comes time to buy them, we can afford a few, and the few will go to combat units first, logistics/support units second and Guard/Reserve units last (unless your unit is a fill in brigade for active combat division). Guerillas will attack our service and support troops who are the least combat trained and least equipped with the latest and greatest (remember the term assymetric warfare freepers, we should know the principles because our enemies will always use it against us). You see this with body armor. Many deployed units from Guard/Reserve and logistics troops are equipped with flak jackets that do not have the expensive Kevlar bullet stopping plate in them. Some parents were shelling out $ 650 plus to buy them from commerical sources and sending them to their sons in Iraq. This situation is the product of a peacetime army that emphasizes technology (very sexy to demonstrate and get funding for) and not logistics (not so sexy and the last to fund). I wish the politicians/DoD types remember Hitler's military was technically advanced against the Russians, but it was bad logistics that defeated it.