Before he took over the Army's top post in November 1998, Shinseki spent his career with U.S. armored forces.
As a practical matter, Saddam Hussein had to move his massed armored forces through Kuwait to get at Saudi Arabia in any meaningful way.
Matters have been made worse by the fact that neither this nor previous administrations have invested the huge sums required fully to modernize the Army and Marine Corps' armored forces, the Navy's fleets and all three services' air arms.
The mere act of attending a rally or throwing a stone at beefy armored security forces can land you in jail.
The developments came after 16 Egyptian soldiers were killed and seven others were wounded Sunday, when assailants with semiautomatic weapons and hand grenades stole two armored vehicles from Egyptian forces and tried to enter Israel.
More than a dozen Egyptian soldiers were killed and seven others were wounded in an August 5 attack near the Rafah border crossing, when assailants with semiautomatic weapons and hand grenades stole two armored vehicles from Egyptian forces and tried to enter Israel.
The raid comes a week after 16 Egyptian soldiers were killed and seven others were wounded in an attack near the Rafah border crossing, when assailants with semiautomatic weapons and hand grenades stole two armored vehicles from Egyptian forces and tried to enter Israel.
For the past several years, the Defense Department has supplied Lebanese armed forces with ammunition, armored vehicles and weapons.
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After the shooting overnight, Macedonian police remained in their trenches and armored personnel carriers, and NATO forces patrolled the areas.
Dubbed Operation Thunder Blitz, it involved U.S. soldiers from the 3rd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, and Iraqi forces from the 1st Battalion, 2nd Commando Brigade (Wolf Battalion), the military said.
In such a scenario, the United States would have needed to provide not only a significant, possibly the largest fraction of air and naval forces required, but also significant armored formations, air defense units, and even logistical formations.
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Then, to cap it off, we find out that DHS, through the U.S. Army Forces Command, recently purchased and retrofitted 2, 717 Mine-Resistant Armored Protection (MRAP) vehicles formerly used for counterinsurgency in Iraq.
Long convoys of armored vehicles are making their way back from forward bases as combat outposts are closed or transferred to Afghan security forces.
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After lunch and yet more PowerPoint, we boarded armored Stryker troop transports and rumbled to Moqtadiya, the site of a recent clearing operation by American and Iraqi forces, directed against remnant Al Qaeda cells and criminal Shia kidnapping gangs.
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