Saturday, February 16, 2008
They were expendable
Because getting the right equipment to the men actually fighting and dying would get in the way of their pet projects, their path to the next promotion.
The Combat Development Command, which decides what gear to buy, treated the MRAP as an expensive obstacle to long-range plans for equipment that was more mobile and fit into the Marines Corps' vision as a rapid reaction force. Those projects included a Humvee replacement called the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle and a new vehicle for reconnaissance and surveillance missions.The study, obtained by the Associated Press shows why the military bureaucracy always needs a good cleaning when war starts, unless you don't mind needless deaths. And what other kind have there been in Iraq.
The MRAPs didn't meet this fast-moving standard and so the Combat Development Command didn't want to buy them, according to Gayl. The study calls this approach a "Cold War orientation" that suffocates the ability to react to emergency situations.
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