[colorado tanker]

If I were Sec Def, and had limited resources, I wouldn't build additional tanks, but instead would build additional air/sealift to deliver the tanks we have to ANY battlefield, Turkey or no.

Amen, brother! That's a much better idea than trying to build cracker box armored cars to fit on C-130's. Any ideas how long a Stryker armored car, which a .50 cal can pierce, would last on a battlefield infested with RPG's and Kornet's???

[LS]

Now wait: I didn't say I wouldn't build those, too. We definitely need a force mixture. That is NOT the tank-heavy brigades that the Gulf War generals watned, but we can't go all light, nor can we ignore transport.

The best force is a balanced force. But those LAVs with the Marines sure don't seem to have much trouble, and you have to admit that right now, the threat from Iraqi tanks is virtually nonexistent.

[Tailback]

Careful, there's a MI guy lurking here that might charge you with treason for badmouthing the Stryker.

[SauronOfMordor]

Any ideas how long a Stryker armored car, which a .50 cal can pierce, would last on a battlefield infested with RPG's and Kornet's???

Not too long, if it was at the front of the battle.

But if its role was to control a swarm of next-generation Predators and other flying or crawling robots armed with guns and missiles, and do it from 50 miles away, then it would be another story