The federal government is ready to go to war against sport utility vehicles (SUVs), which fall under the category of light trucks and vans (LTVs).
It is not only Britain's biggest purchase of armoured vehicles since the second world war but also the biggest such deal outside America.
Here in Canada, Mazda, which imports most of its products as opposed to building them in North America, has launched a price war by cutting lease rates on some vehicles by over 15 per cent.
However, that position is dictated by the small number of system integrators who have managed to survive since the Cold War ended in military aircraft, armored vehicles and warships, making any further consolidation a step toward monopoly in some weapons categories.
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We rode into war crammed in the back of amphibious assault vehicles.
Were Mr. Gates actually to do so, he would condemn the Corps to going to war from the sea for the foreseeable future with obsolescent amphibious vehicles, or not at all.
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The exact number may never be established: after the first Gulf war, unreliable estimates were obtained by extrapolating from the number of destroyed Iraqi vehicles.
The ground vehicles were designed to be lightweight and easily deployable, suitable for rapid dispatch to distant war zones in modular fighting units.
Michael Moss writes about military transportation for The New York Times, and he says those vehicles were designed in the late 1960s and never intended for use in anything like the war in Iraq.
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