Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader sees that the Army is sending moderinzed versions of the M113 armoured personnel carrier to Iraq. (Thanks to the Mad Ogre for pointing this out.) Your Maximum Leader always thought the M113, or rather the concept of the M113 was a good one. An armoured box to move soliders around in relative safety. While your Maximum Leader still worries about putting bigger guns on an APC (and thus leading some commanders to think of an APC as a light tank and not a troop conveyance), he thinks that we really need to modernize our available APC options. Really now. We go from Humvee to Stryker to Bradley to M1A1 tank. Not nearly enough choice there.

You should also check out the Ogre’s evaluation of the moderized M113s. It is on his main page… Your Maximum Leader can’t seem to find the permalink.

Carry on.