Re: Fighters Okayed
Protection hampers individual mobility. Most of the world’s armies, even NATO armies, do not provide their soldiers with the same amount of body armour as the US army does because they are not willing to sacrifice mobility for protection. Body armour makes it harder for soldiers to move their bodies due to added bulk; and especially in hotter climates body armour makes soldiers get exhausted faster due to the added weight they are carrying around.
Pakistan’s military thinking is simply aligned with most of the world that mobile soldiers are more important that protected soldiers.
Protection versus mobility is one of the oldest trade-offs in the world and nations have done it for centuries. In the crusades, crusader soldiers were much more heavily armoured than Muslim soldiers and thus more likely to win 1:1 fights. Muslim soldiers could march faster and fight longer, however, due to being less weighed down by armour.
In the 17 and 18th centuries, European armies began providing less and less armour, because bulletproof steel plate was so heavy that offering soldiers maximum protection would make them less effective at fighting that lighter-armoured, more mobile rivals.