According to internal Pentagon e-mails obtained by Newsweek, the Humvee
situation is so bad that the head of the U.S. Army Forces Command, Gen.
Larry Ellis, has urged that more of the new Stryker combat vehicles be
put into the field. Sources say that the Army brass back in Washington
have not yet concurred with that. The problem: the rubber-tire Strykers
are thin-skinned and don't maneuver through dangerous streets as well as
the fast-pivoting, treaded Bradley.

According to a well-placed Defense Department source, the Army is so
worried about the Stryker's vulnerability that most of the 300-vehicle
brigade currently in Iraq has been deployed up in the safer Kurdish
region around Mosul. "Any further south, and the Army was afraid the
Arabs would light them up," he says.

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