One way to avoid roadside bombs is to AVOID the road!!! Maybe we should be ressurecting the ACAV version of the M113 instead of armoring wheeled vehicles as an after-thought. Seems to me that tracked vehicles are for fighting, wheels are for going to the grocery. The Stryker is another topheavy, easy to roll and miserably easy to penetrate wheeled vehicle. Only wheeled combat vehicle that made sense, and only in a French sort of way, was the Panhard. It had drivers facing both ways so it could retreat as fast as it advanced.............
"One way to avoid roadside bombs is to AVOID the road!!!"
Difficult, if not impossible, in an urban area, unless one plans on knocking down houses all the time.
Kind of incompatible with the "hearts & mind" approach.