Another 60 Minutes hit job last night. It was an old story that has already been kicked around considerably–our guys didn’t have enough armored humvees going into Iraq. This is true, given that we didn’t realize that we would be facing an insurgency that would rely on roadside bombs. What the report left out is what we have been doing to make up the gap. My understanding is that back in September ‘03 we were producing 78 armored humvees a month. That figure is now 450 a month. Beginning last Sept. we redistributed humvees from around the world to send thousands more to CENTCOM. More than 90% of all our armored humvees are now with CENTCOM (a sign surely that we just need more armored humvees overall). By the spring the Pentagon expects to have all the armored humvees it needs on the ground in Iraq. It isn’t ideal obviously that it has taken so long, but this is the real world, where you have to cope with surprises as they arise. One thing that is never surprising is the tendentious reporting of CBS.