Introduction -- Operational surprise and response -- The contemporary IED experience -- Data sources -- U.S. experience in Iraq -- The U.S. response -- Recognition -- Institutional response -- Organizational -- Equipment -- Vehicles -- Electronic countermeasures -- Training and doctrine -- Research and development -- Industrial -- Funding -- Policy -- Summary assessment -- The Australian experience in Iraq -- The Australian response -- Recognition -- Institutional response -- Organizational -- Equipment -- Training and doctrine -- Research and development -- Industrial -- Funding -- Policy -- Comparative analysis of responses -- Leadership changes -- National interests and equities -- Adequacy of existing capabilities -- Countervailing assessments -- Conventional thinking -- Adequate agility -- Flexible force structure -- Other considerations -- Failure to anticipate and the risk of overreaction -- The focusing power of casualties -- Subsequent experience - Afghanistan -- Conclusions.Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) Vehicle Program, available from www. globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ ground/mrap-proc.htm. For general background ... 2-3. 52. U.S. Army Field Manual (FM) 3-34.2, Combined Arms Breaching 63.
Title | : | Improvised Explosive Devices in Iraq, 2003-09 |
Author | : | Andrew Smith |
Publisher | : | Strategic Studies Institute - 2011-01-01 |
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