re: when the story first broke
It was an ongoing issue discussed in the military sites. When it became an issue, the production of armor was ramped up drastically and in record time, but when the military is doing something right, it isn't news. There are still areas where more armor is needed, but the issue is more complicated than it's being made to sound.
A good article on this here. Not as cut-and-dried as the media would have you believe, but supply pipelines, materials issues, vehicle weight and power problems, and coordination of multiple vendors don't play as well for the media as "Rumsfeld Is An Asshole."
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