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I have not heard too many of our soldiers praising the MRAPs.
As noted, they bind you to the roads and play into the enemies' TTPs.
It is a great vehicle for transporting troops, in a mine and IED heavy environment, on improved roads from A to B.
For fighting, hauling cargo, taking hits from anything other than mines and IEDs, or mobility on poor roads or cross-country, not so much.
Afghanistan is not Iraq. What works in one, is not necessarily a cookie-cutter solution for the other. If you limit yourself to moving and fighting on the roads in MRAPs, and I'll adjust my TTPs to bury you, just like the Russians and their road-bound armored columns. The enemy is not stupid, however much we may want to believe that he is, and MRAPs are not always the answer. For that matter, neither are the SRATs or GMVs.
TR
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