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This 3 page paper discusses the MRAP vehicle, and some of its problems. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Incorporating the MRAP into Army Operations Research Compiled for The
Paper Store, Inc. by K. Von Huben 10/2010 Please Introduction Mine resistant ambush protected (MRAP) vehicles have been produced to meet
the battlefield conditions in Iraq and Afghanistan, but have not been fully deployed in the Army and Marine Corps. This paper considers ways of incorporating the MRAP into operations, and
whether there might be a better solution. Discussion Every war has its particular "signature" wounds-the Civil War, for instance, produced a great many amputations while World War I saw a
great many cases of what was then called "shell shock." Vietnam produced a lot of victims of post-traumatic stress disorder, and the recent campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan are resulting
in a lot of wounds caused by Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), usually buried under or near roads. Protecting troops from the blasts delivered by these weapons is paramount, and has
resulted in the development of armored vehicles that are resistant to mines and ambushes, hence the acronym. The need for such vehicles was recognized during 2003 in Iraq, when
the "fast paced, mechanized, expeditionary war that quickly took down Saddam Husseins regime turned into a slogging counterinsurgency operation, often staged on complex urban terrain."1 The lightly armored vehicles the
U.S. troops had at the time left them vulnerable to attack: "In 2007, IEDs accounted for two-thirds of U.S. fatalities in Iraq."2 The answer was the development of the MRAP,
which would protect troops; although Buxbaum describes them as "heavy, lumbering trucks" he also says they are "best suited to protect troops from IEDs. Their height and weight shield the
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