Take A Walk!

If you can believe this:

Top US commanders in Iraq have been encouraging soldiers in Baghdad to "get out and walk."

This "new" strategy is to decrease the dangers from IED's. You see. If soldiers get out of their vehicles and walk, then they can't get blown up while in their vehicles.

Huh?

"Foot patrols, of course, are not a fail-safe method," Barnes adds. "On city streets, snipers remain a threat. And bombs can still kill dismounted troops. But when blasts occur in the middle of a foot patrol, the number of casualties are generally lower because the troops are more spread out."

I get it. By walking, the insurgents have to have better aim than just the gross blow-up-a-bunch-of-guys strategy.

Your Pentagon. Always thinkin'.