As to the reporter who did this, he should be dis-embedded. There are questions to get information leading to solutions, and there are questions to AMBUSH. This smells more like the latter....the reporter just smells.
i disagree,
this article is pretty fair...
"The modification of the vehicles by scavenging is part of a temporary measure to provide armor until such time as they can be manufactured. It is not lack of planning – it is an Army policy."
Exactly, its called fieldcraft. :-)