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So Canada isn't armoring any of their jeeps because doing so would insulate
them from the populace? Interesting idea. Are there studies which have shown
this? Do they also consider the following factors:

1. humvees with armor have windows that roll down,
2. although the vehicles are armored, that doesn't mean the soldiers have to
stay inside and buttoned up all the time. It merely gives them the option to
do so if they are transiting an especially dangerous area and there is
little benefit of passing out candy bars?

That article said that the Ilitis' replacement vehicle would not have made a
difference the crew would still have died. True, but that is a red herring.
Nobody said that the unarmored vehicle replacing the Ilitis (IMHO the
G-Wagen) would have made a difference. The argument is that an armored
vehicle would have saved their lives. A casual reader would come away from
that article thinking that an armored vehicle would have made no difference.
That is trash journalism it is most despicable, throwing red herring
arguments in to distract from the main point.

I would agree about the "peace-keeping" argument in that article. The troops
are not "peace-keeping," they are "policing," which is what Afghanistan
needs. And the Canadian contingent seems to be doing a pretty good job of it
too. Good for them. Casualties will happen in such circumstances, but if
unprofitable risks are avoided, such casualties can be minimized.

All this argument and red herrings detract from the main question:

Were the Canadian troops who died doing something AT THAT TIME which they
couldn't have done just as effectively in an armored Humvee?

Believe what you want, but I doubt it.

"Andrew Chaplin" wrote in message
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Blair Maynard wrote:

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Speaking of Canada. This is an interesting article on Canada's
unwillingness
to spend money on light armored patrol vehicles.


http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/...s1004/BNStory/
National/

As a counterpoint, see http://tinyurl.com/ppdc.
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Andrew Chaplin
SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO
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