Protecting Logistics Assets

摘要

The US Army is working to provide technologies that better protect Soldiers in the theatre of operations. These new technologies will also help keep logistics Soldiers safe while conducting convoys. As Operation "Iraqi Freedom" (OIF) moved from the early phases of conventional symmetric combat to asymmetric counter-insurgency, US and Coalition logistics units struggled to find ways to protect convoys as they moved supplies forward over sandy roads littered with destruction and debris and imperilled by improvised explosive devices (IED) and ambushes.