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Lieutenant General Michael Barbero, Director, Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization, US Department of Defense, spoke on 'Countering the threat of improvised explosive devices' at Arundel House, London on February 21, 2012. The meeting was chaired by Brigadier Ben Barry, IISS Senior Fellow for Land Warfare. Download hi-res

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"The IED is an enduring threat that requires enduring capabilities."

Interdict Homemade Explosive and other Precursor flow into Afghanistan
Disrupt Global Threat Facilitation Networks
Anticipate, Identify, and Address Threat Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTP)
Rapidly Develop and Integrate Training Capabilities
Proactively Identify Requirements and Rapidly Acquire, Deliver, and Assess Solutions
Support Department of Defense Efforts to Build and Accelerate Afghan National Security Force Capabilities

Support Combatant Command Efforts to Address Global Threat Networks and the IED Threat
Lead C-IED Research and Development to Counter Dynamic Global IED Threat
Anticipate, Identify, and Address Threat TTPs
Fuse and Disseminate Operations-Intelligence-Information Analysis to Support Operational Commanders to Attack Global Threat Networks
Develop, Integrate, and Institutionalize C-IED and Attack the Network Joint Training and Doctrine
Institutionalize Weapons Technical Intelligence
Leverage Whole-of-Government(s) Approach to Counter Threat Networks and IED threat

Lt. Gen Barbero receives capabilities briefing on replicating extremist networks that employ IEDs
Capt. Chad E. Cooper, Ft. Irwin (October 9, 2012)

Congress told IEDs will remain ‘weapon of choice’ for decades
Army News Service (September 27, 2012)

Military urged to help counter IEDs at home
Stewart M. Powell, Houston Chronicle (July 29, 2012)

Pentagon warns that US faces IED threat at home
Anna Mulrine, The Christian Science Monitor (July 17, 20012)

IEDs increasingly a U.S. threat
Stephanie Gaskell, Politico (July 13, 2012)

America’s New Bomb Threat
Eli Lake, The Daily Beast (July 13, 2012)

Intelligence, training drive down bomb blasts against US troops in Afghanistan
Kimberly Dozier, Associated Press (July 06, 2012)

Barbero on IEDs: Put pressure on the network
Army Times (May 20, 2012)

General Barbero on the future of IEDs (video)
Defense News (May 06, 2012)

Sen. Casey Pushes US Army Efforts To Combat IEDs
John Ostapkovich, CBS News (March 05, 2012)

Use of IEDs by regime opposition in Syria rises sharply
Jim Michaels, USA TODAY (March 04, 2012)

Home-made bombs are scourge of 21st century
Robert Fox, London Evening Standard (February 23, 2012)

Countering the threat of improvised explosive devices (video)
The International Institute for Strategic Studies (February 21, 2012)

The evolution of the IED
P.W. Singer, Armed Forces Journal (February 2012)

Buried bombs can be destroyed, but not defeated
Sandra I. Erwin, National Defense (January 2012)

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"The IED, and the networks that employ them will remain a threat, long after our forces end their current missions in Afghanistan and Iraq."

"IED threat networks are a virus that breeds and flourishes in a climate of instability."

"The IED is the artillery of the 21st century."

Statement for the Record -- LTG Barbero remarks to the House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense (September 20, 2012 - Washington, DC)

I would like to leave you with one final thought — I understand the toll these weapons have taken on our troopers and their families — the deaths, and the terrible, life-changing injuries. And I promise you — we are committed to providing every possible capability we can to protect our troops into 2014 and beyond. THIS IS MY MISSION.
Statement by LTG Barbero before the House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense (September 20, 2012 - Washington, DC)

"While we adhere to Napoleon’s dictum to 'march to the sound of the guns,' these threat networks 'march to the signs of insecurity…and take the IED with them.' We see this in Colombia, Pakistan, Syria, Nigeria, and Somalia among others. Wherever we see turmoil or insecurity, we see the spread of these networks and the spread of IEDs — now and in the future."
Asymetric Explosive Threat Program Review at the Office of Naval Research (August 14, 2012 - Arlington, VA)

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"The IED, and the networks that employ them will remain a threat, long after our forces end their current missions in Afghanistan and Iraq." "IED threat networks are a virus that breeds and flourishes in a climate of instability." "The IED is the artillery of the 21st century."

"The IED, and the networks that employ them will remain a threat, long after our forces end their current missions in Afghanistan and Iraq."

"IED threat networks are a virus that breeds and flourishes in a climate of instability."

"The IED is the artillery of the 21st century."