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2017-05-03 Afghanistan

How The IED Won : Dispelling the Myth of Tactical Success and Innovation

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-05-03 06:31|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Whether you call it a IED or booby trap or whatever, probably the single most effective land weapon in world is probably the land mine.
When you care enough to leave the very best.

Posted by ed in texas 2017-05-03 08:45|| 2017-05-03 08:45|| Front Page Top

#2 Mines and booby traps are always going to be some of the deadliest things an insurgent army can use.

That said, there are ways to get around them, if you don't mind getting rid of half the country side. In WWII we simply blew up a lot of the minefields with artillery and damn the villages near them. We didn't have that strategy in the boxes as we were trying to "save" the country and win hearts and minds.

Posted by DarthVader 2017-05-03 09:12|| 2017-05-03 09:12|| Front Page Top

#3 When history looks back on these wars, the dominant images will be of the aftermath of these improvised bombs, of their devastating effects on a Baghdad market or of veteran and Afghan amputees.

Neh. The end will far outweigh the beginning.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-05-03 09:51|| 2017-05-03 09:51|| Front Page Top

#4 When you engage in 'kinder gentler' war, you give your opponent the opportunity to set the conditions of the fight.

Posted by P2kontheroad 2017-05-03 17:53|| 2017-05-03 17:53|| Front Page Top

#5 The immense quantities of explosives acquired by Saddam and just left lying around gave a lot of scope for IED tactics.

Posted by Grunter 2017-05-03 21:43|| 2017-05-03 21:43|| Front Page Top

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