Rob, I like your emphasis on "sustainable" and internal trans solutions for the IA.

I would be willing to bet that anything based on the basic Mercedes truck design would be usable to the IA. A locally-produced mine-resistant vehicle based on the UNIMOG might be the ticket. the Iraqis I knew in OIF were extremely cognizant of what it takes to keep Mercedes trucks running.

I know that Germany has a current surplus of them; perhaps a deal could be worked.

Alternatively, the US is transitioning to the LMTV family of vehicles; what are they doing to all the newly remanufactured M35A3/A4 variants? A lend/lease kind of arrangement could surely be worked out, in lieu of selling them for a few hundred bucks at OUSPFO auction....