claim: "roadside bombs are responsible for 70 percent of casualties in iraq and these new mine-resistant vehicles can reduce those casualties by two-thirds."
author: joe biden
evidence_1: dec 18, 2013 ... it's an enduring legacy of the homemade bomb that has created more american  casualties over a decade and two wars than any other weapon. ... than half to two -thirds of americans killed or wounded in combat in the iraq and afghanistan  wars have been victims of ieds planted in the ground, in vehicles or ...
evidence_2: mraps, irregular. warfare, and. pentagon reform by christopher j. lamb,.  matthew j. schmidt, and. berit g. fitzsimmons. june 2009. institute for national  .... the percentage of casualties caused by ieds did not decline significantly until  mid-2007 and 2008, when violence declined abruptly as mraps arrived in large.
evidence_3: jun 30, 2014 ... november: usmc sole-source contract awarded for up to 280 mrap vehicles  mrap vehicle program initiated with staff of .... 30 september 2013, and jpo  responsibility for mrap vehicles officially ended on 19 december 2013, several  questions are worth answering: 1. did the mrap program matter? 2.
evidence_4: the iraq war in anbar province, also known as the al anbar campaign, consisted  of fighting between the united states military, together with iraqi government  forces, and sunni insurgents in the western iraqi province of al anbar. the iraq  war lasted from 2003 to 2011, but the majority of the fighting and  counterinsurgency ...
evidence_5: mar 13, 2007 ... argue mraps are not really useful for irregular warfare and are prohibitively  expensive.2 as. general barry ... but soon began using roadside bombs set off ...  sophisticated efps never amounted to more than 5 to 10 percent of the ieds  employed by insurgents, but they caused 40 percent of ied casualties.