A telling detail about the actual state of affairs on the ground is that the US army is making a world-wide search for armoured Humvees. This is not a war which is getting easier, therefore.
At the moment, these ubiquitous vehicles are often soft skinned and are especially vulnerable in attacks on convoys. According to figures used by the Associated Press, of 15,000 Humvees in Iraq, only 1,500 to 2,000 are armoured.
Some are even being made safer by having steel sheets fixed by local Iraqi workshops.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 02:12 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 02:14 (twenty-two years ago)