Hence, the third reason body armor was not the utmost priority was that leaders of World War I believed that sacrifice ... we felt ourselves one body in mystical unification." ...

Well, let's have a look at World War I. American Doughboys goofing around with German sentry armor. You might think steel plate body armor was long gone by the 20th century, but in fact it was not.

To put it bluntly, the problem boiled down to hips and breasts. Over the past decade, as female U.S. troops were placed in de facto front-line roles in Iraq and Afghanistan, they were often ...