Pick-up Warfare

[Subdeacon Joe]

An interesting take on things.

http://warontherocks.com/2014/02/the-pickup-truck-era-of-warfare/

 

Readers, let’s take a moment to salute a true workhorse. In the world of war machines, the expensive and high-tech items get all the attention and budget—drones, anti-ship ballistic missiles, cyber warfare, and the like. But, on the battlefields of the twenty-first century, a humble and under-rated weapon has quietly showed up these expensive attention-hogs: the pickup truck.