[meenie]

The army has two missions that are entirely different from each other. The mission involving the war on terror has the requirements of a large force of ground troops which we no longer have. With the backdrop of N Korea, China , etc. which could be our next opponents, the requirements for heavy armor, high-tech weapons and massive killing power is required.

Trying to prepare for both contingencies has the only common denominator of additional ground troops and light infantry. This is where we have been weakened at the expense of new high-tech developement. When we can't control the ground in Iraq, how are we going to do with a major enemy force? The advantage of the Stryker being able to outrun the enemy is probably the least reason to buy the system.

[Darksheare]

The Stryker can' outrun diddly.
That's the point.
It is unstable on even flat ground, so they stick 'requirements and restrictions' on speed of turns and operating 'parameters' that are unrealistic in actual combat.
Despite Shinseki's quaalude induced hallucination, wheels are NOT more manueverable than tracked vehicles.
A tank can turn within it's own body length.
In urban combat, that is a plus.
The Stryker has the turn radius of a greyhound buss.
A tank can run over sharp objects, Stryker cannot.
A tank can cross rolling terrain at speed.
Stryker would be lucky to not roll over like a dog on flat ground let alone rolling terrain.

The Stryker MGS cannot fire in a full arc around itself, and required reduced poweder rounds to prevent flipping when fired broadside.
And it STILL flips when fried broadside producing them to make a requirement to not fire broadside.
NOT realistic in combat.
The Stryker will be a liability in North Korea rather than an asset.
It is designed specifically for paved improved roads like those here in the US.
That is where it operates the best.
I do not know of any country we might operate in where the roads will stay in pristine form during combat, let alone having a network of roads like what we have here.

Archy, anything to add that I might have missed?