They look like an extra-large version of the World War Two jeep, but enclosed, with small blast-proof windows, a protected machine gun position on top and a variety of high-tech gear inside and out.
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Its screen is three feet by two feet and employs surveillance information to give those in charge an overhead view of a war zone that shows the positionof both good guys and bad.
And the war is even more unpopular among Democratic primary voters, something senators were constantly reminded of by the periodic disruptions of the hearings by anti-war protestors, and all of the Democratic presidential candidates have fought to position themselves as the candidate who can bring the troops home.
Under amendments to the National Security Act of 1947, which created the positionof the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the War Department, now housed for the first time in a building of its own, became the Department of Defense.