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Article: Unthought-of roles: there is no <>, said Brigadier General Jeffrey Sorenson, the Deputy for Acquisition Systems Management in the Office of the Secretary of the Army, on 13 December 2004.(Complete Guide)
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- April 1, 2005
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Since the end of the Cold War there has been a shift toward wheeled armoured fighting vehicles that combine the advantages of rapid tactical deployment and protected mobility with reduced life cycle costs. Studies undertaken by Nato, the US Marine Corps and the Canadian Army, among others, indicate that the life cycle costs of wheeled vehicles are about 40 to 60 per cent less than that of tracked vehicles, as peacekeepers deployed in the Former Yugoslavia have well learned.
The ability of the US Army's 8 x 8 Stryker--captured in the lead photo by the US Department of Defense--to deploy rapidly over long distances is a characteristic exploited by planners in Iraq.
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