“ Meanwhile, in one part of Iraq, hard-shelled trucks called MRAPs (mine-resistant, ambush-protected) had withstood hundreds of attacks without a single US fatality. But in May 2007, just 64 were delivered into the field—they were considered too big to use anywhere but Iraq, and the Army already had Future Combat Systems going. Gates learned about MRAPs not from his generals but from an April 2007 article in USA Today. “Nobody wanted the things, because they were afraid they’d wind up with thousands of them in a big car park at the end of the war,” Gates says. “My attitude was: If you’re in a war, it’s all in. I don’t care what we have left over at the end.”
Interesting article of how Robert Gates is challenging Military Industrial Complex from within in the most recent Wired. (Via Wired)
Source: Wired
