@bucho@lemmy.one How do you think the war is going buddy? Fingers crossed the meatgrinder will continue and even more will die?
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Especially stupid because the main killer of US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan were IEDs. Over 20 years in the sandbox and they didn’t think other countries would create something more sophisticated than fertilizer and a cell phone?
Exactly, didn’t the US military have a whole new line of combat vehicle specifically to deal with all that?
Reading the history of prior MRAP-like vehicles is an escalating series of . Originally conceived of by Rhodesia’s military, with a lot of further development by apartheid-era South Africa, especially by their police.
