“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

“When you get down in the boiler room and look at moving mountains of equipment that is accumulated over six years of war in Iraq and either bringing it home, or donating it to the Iraqi security forces, or taking it to Afghanistan, it is a huge logistical challenge.”

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 “Iraq Exit Poses Daunting Logistics,” which the Boston Globe published on July 28, 2009.

For the full article, go to: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2009/07/28/iraq_exit_poses_daunting_logistics?mode=PF