Armor Still Lacking

An op-ed piece written by Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and the parents of a soldier killed in Iraq claims the Pentagon has not done enough to upgrade armor on military vehicles in Iraq. Defense analysts say that after Vietnam, the Pentagon designed its logistics around a war fought on central Europe's plains. It never took into account a war in the Mideast where the enemy would attack behind the frontlines. As a result, the Pentagon still has no balistic requirements for trucks serving in Iraq. One company that supplies those trucks to the Pentagon has 4,800 of their products in the war zone. Only 500 of them have added armor and only 200 have armored cabs. (Boston Globe & Christian Science Monitor)