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Silencing the bomb path.
Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) have become the most dangerous threat in both Iraq and Afghanistan, forcing coalition armies deployed in those operational theatres to adopt countermeasures in the form of passive protection and purposely-armoured vehicles. However, potential escalation was visible from the word 'Go'. The keyword in this context is anticipation.
The best form of protection, it is well known, is attack. To counter roadside bombs (a better term since the so-called IEDs are now in fact far from being improvised and many are produced in 'factories'), smarter approaches are to: a) use active protection, in the form of electronic countermeasures to neutralise the devices themselves and/or the detonation command, b) anticipate enemy moves by detecting insurgents while they...See the full content of this document
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