Detecting Improvised Explosive Devices: Enduring Threat Requires Enduring Solutions.

Accession Number

ADA560881

Publication Date

Mar 2012

Media Count

38p

Personal Author

C. M. Benson

Abstract

With a new defense strategy, the withdrawal of forces from Iraq and Afghanistan, and looming budget and personnel cuts, the United States has an opportunity to reevaluate its counter-improvised explosive device (C-IED) strategies and develop enduring strategies to detect and mitigate IEDs in future conflicts. IEDs are an enduring, global threat and the weapon of choice for insurgents, terrorists, and other adversaries wishing to oppose a technologically superior force. The United States has spent billions of dollars to develop technologies to detect IEDs, but those efforts have not significantly improved IED find rates. In truth, dogs, humans, and low-tech methods are the best detectors. To effectively detect and mitigate IEDs in the future, the United States must export its Defeat the Device and Attack the Network training, methodology, and capabilities to its partners and allies to ensure that they possess the capability to defeat IEDs within their areas of responsibility. This paper focuses on defeating the device, specifically ground- emplaced (buried or surface-laid) IEDs.

Keywords

Afghanistan conflict
Army training
Buried objects
Combined arms maneuver
Counter-improvised explosive device strategies
Countermeasures
Criminals
Explosive ordnance disposal
Explosives detection
Human detection
Ied(Improvised explosive devices)
Improvised explosive device detection technology
Improvised explosive devices
Iraqi war
Jieddo(Joint ied defeat organization)
Long range stand-off detection
Low costs
Low-tech tools
Military doctrine
Military dogs
Mine detection dogs
Nonstate actors
Obstacle breaching operations
Route clearance
Standoff
Terrorists
Threats
Weapons effects
Wide area security


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Source Agency

Non Paid ADAS

NTIS Subject Category

63B - Electromagnetic & Acoustic Countermeasures
63F - Optical Detection
79A - Ammunition, Explosives, & Pyrotechnics

Corporate Author

Army War Coll., Carlisle Barracks, PA.

Document Type

Technical report

Title Note

Research paper.

NTIS Issue Number

1222

Contract Number

N/A

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