Armor is not the answer. Rummy was right. Tanks are being stopped. You can put enough steel on a Hummvee to make it sink in the sand but the terrs will just add another 155 shell.
You put 4 155 shells under a road or suicide ram it into anything and thats all she wrote. The fact is we are losing one third of our casualties to mines suicide attacks on our convoys. Our tactics need to change.
Military access only to convoy vital routes. Let the cars find another way to get to where they are going.
Less convoys. Consolidate our positions and pay the Kurds to take up the more dispersed positions.
More electronic countermeasures to jam or predetonate remote mines.
AND
WE NEED TO THREATEN IRAN or they will continue to motivate terrorist. (Actually we will have to take out Iran internally or overtly.)
Kill first ask question later.
Excellent post.
Threats don't work.
Action does!
Not a la Jimmy Carter.
More electronic countermeasures to jam or predetonate remote mines.
I was wondering why we can't do more of this type of thing. Aren't they set off with cell phones mostly?
If this continues, I'd say we need to get rid of cell services in Iraq until our guys are out of there.