“The terrain in Afghanistan is different from Iraq. It’s more uneven, the roads are difficult to traverse. That’s why we’ve had to create an all-terrain version.”

Ashton Carter, on leave from the Belfer Center’s board of directors to serve as under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology, and logistics, was quoted in “Pentagon hopes new M-ATV is ‘life-saver,’” which CNN published on November 4, 2009.

For the full article, go to: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/11/04/afghanistan.military.vehicle/index.html