Body armor.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills

Tom Ricks, The Washington Post's excellent Pentagon reporter, recently explored the lessons troops are learning in Iraq. One is about training: "Our troops are in down-and-dirty fights in the streets of the Fallujahs of this country, and mostly the Army still trains for the Big Fight." Another is about equipment. What the troops want is not the high-tech weaponry favored by the Pentagon, but "less fancy new...