Accession Number:

ADA600565

Title:

Defeating the IED: JIEDDO's Mission Impossible, the Lure of Technology, and the Emergence of the COIN Solution

Descriptive Note:

Master's thesis

Corporate Author:

MARINE CORPS COMMAND AND STAFF COLL QUANTICO VA

Personal Author(s):

• Carr, Walter G.

Report Date:

2011-04-12

Pagination or Media Count:

42.0

Abstract:

The task assigned to the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization JIEDDO, to defeat the improvised explosive device lED as a weapon of strategic influence, was an impossible and poorly-defined task. It was the insurgency, not the lED that was strategically important, and the best solution was a counterinsurgency.

Descriptors:

• *COUNTERINSURGENCY
• *IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVE DEVICES
• AFGHANISTAN CONFLICT
• EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE DISPOSAL
• GROUND VEHICLES
• INSURGENCY
• IRAQI WAR
• MILITARY EQUIPMENT
• MILITARY FORCES(UNITED STATES)
• MILITARY INTELLIGENCE
• MINE CLEARANCE

Subject Categories:

• Unconventional Warfare
• Ammunition and Explosives

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE