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The U.S. Military pledged Wednesday that it would spend $4 billion in the next six months to armor all its vehicles in the Iraqi war zone. Is the armor shortage brought to light last week at a "town hall meeting" between Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and U.S. troops a matter of poor war planning? Or, is it--as the Defense Department claims--that the Iraqi insurgency has changed its tactics?

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