Reply #21: I'd rather be in a under protected HUMVEE...

[Leaning_Right]

...than a zero protected jeep. When I was in the army we there was armor on any vehicle in our battalion. Only tanks and APCs seemed to have the honor. I was in the combat engineers during the time when the banglor torpedo was still the preferred method of clearing certain obstacles. That wasn't that long ago. We measured life expectancy in steps rather than against the entire war.

What we are experiencing in the news today is a perception of an antiseptic war. There is no such thing. Too many movies of false heroics where only the bad guys get hurt and the good guy equipment functions flawlessly. That isn't the real world and never will be.

The best protected vehicle is still in danger by a single motivated individual and the simplest of weapons. Low flying helicopter have been brought down with hand held pocket pointers. A Molotov cocktail does wonders when applied correctly. Rocks dropped from bridges can halt entire supply convoys. That is why resistance fighters are so deadly. They are creative and unpredictable.