The Kurds need heavy weapons in their fight (also our fight) against ISIS. And as Mitch Swenson of War is Boring reports:
Historically isolated from arms suppliers and outgunned by Islamic State militants, resourceful Kurdish security forces have built their own makeshift armored vehicles—all in a desperate bid to beef up their own fighting strength.
The improvised tanks in the photographs look comic. Obscenely so. They also make a strong point about the seriousness—indeed, the desperation—of the Kurds’ situation.
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