Electronic References
Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs)
ADM002281, Winter 2009

Links (current as of the date of publication)

Improvised Explosive Devices (IED), Global Security.org
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/intro/ied.htm


Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO)
Teams Trained for Multiagency, Multinational Afghanistan Counter-IED Strategy

https://www.jieddo.dod.mil/article.aspx?ID=668

Counter-IED Facts, Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO)
https://www.jieddo.dod.mil/content/docs/20090421_JIEDDO_Overall_Tri-fold_v3.pdf PDF Icon

IED Resources by DTIC, Knowledge and Information Fusion Exchange (KNIFE)
https://jknife.jieddo.dod.mil
(A Common Access Card (CAC) is required for access.)

Naval Directed Energy Center’s Directed Energy Warfare Office
Counter-Improvised Explosive Device, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren

http://www.navsea.navy.mil/nswc/dahlgren/ET/DEWO/CIED_Flyer.pdf PDF Icon

DOTD, Maneuver Center of Excellence Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Team
https://www.benning.army.mil/ied/

Articles
"Left of Boom - The Struggle to Defeat Roadside Bombs" by Rick Atkinson, The Washington Post, 2007
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/specials/leftofboom/index.html

"Counter-IED tactics MIA in Afghanistan - Gates Creates New Task Force to Streamline Tools and Techniques" by William Welsh, Defense Systems, 17 November 2009
http://defensesystems.com/Articles/2009/11/17/Counter-IED-task-force-established.aspx?sc_lang=en&Page=1

"Army Faces Different IED Foe in Afghanistan Specialists will use Electronic Warfare to Counter Improvised Explosive Devices Triggered" by Mechanical Means by Barry Rosenberg, 09 September 2009
http://defensesystems.com/Articles/2009/09/02/C4ISR2-Electronic-Warfare.aspx?sc_lang=en&Page=1

"IED Defeat: Observations From the National Training Center" by Lieutenant Colonel Thomas H. Magness, Engineer, January – March 2005
http://www.wood.army.mil/ENGRMAG/PDFs%20for%20Jan-Mar%2005/Magness.pdf
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"Gates to Lead 6-month Push against Roadside Bombs" by Anne Gearan, Associated Press, 12 November 2009
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jiTw0OC5HFerNzmqn_ZJZk2vntkgD9BU8O980

"More Unmanned Aircraft Striving to Eliminate IEDs" by Erika Wonn, U.S. Army homepage, 07 October 2009
http://www.army.mil/-news/2009/10/07/28454-more-unmanned-aircraft-striving-to-eliminate-ieds/