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You know somebody who's been deployed recently? ask them how they felt driving around a war zone in the mraps. you know somebody deployed early in the wars? compare the mraps now to what they started with. think of how the military has traveled from the flak jackets we sent early on in iraq and afghanistan to not only the high-tech body armor we have now but the freaking exoskeletons. the amazing distance traveled between old technology and new technology is about the magic of the for profit private market that operates in the defense contractor world. even the most profitable private industry...

Roles. in afghanistan, they are so prized for their ability to work around the clock, that general david petraeus has said the capability they bring to the fight cannot be replicated by man or machine. especially for dangerous work like checking for car bombs. >> we can send a dog in there without anybody getting close to the vehicle and you're not risking harm to anyone directly. the dogs can indicate whether there's anything in the vehicle or not. >> reporter: to purchase and train a single combat dog costs $50,000. and companies like canine storm have built a multimillion dollar industry ar...

From soldiers hundreds of yards away. flak jackets help them take down opponents without injury, and dogs ask parachute as well any human. one dog set a record for jumping more than 50,000 feet up. >> it's amazing they've got kevlar vests for dogs and oxygen masks for dogs. do we know what kind of breed of dog that was used in the bin laden raid? >> a good bet would be a belgia shepherd. the belgians are lighter, quicker, more agile and more energetic and most of the dogs in the u.s. military come from europe. >> interesting. tom, this has ignited a twitter war between dog and cat lovers. dog ...

Money that a cruise missile costs. is perhaps $25 million will buy you maybe 50 cruise missiles and already far more than that number have been sent to libya. but it will buy flak jackets and uniforms, night vision goggles or whatever else is going to be given to the rebels so this will give them some psychological boosts and it will give them a small technical leg up on the battlefield. it seems likely $25 million will be a game changer but it can be the start after slippery slope. what happens if this $25 million and what it buys doesn't bring results on the ground which you want which is es...

Tanks away. they tell us they're trying to repair those. this is really how they've been arming themselves. they have basically been cobbling together bits and pieces of weapons that they're finding. what they carry into the battlefield is whatever they have recovered from weapon storage facilities, from arms depots. this is why they say they need weapons and equipment. now, the chief of staff for the opposition military did tell us that they specifically have asked various foreign countries for weapons and for equipment, because these fighters out there, anderson, they don't even have flak ja...