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Extract from After the Blast: An Australian Officer in Iraq and Afghanistan

Since the first IED strikes on US soldiers in mid-2003, the insurĀ­gents had been learning from their successes and failures, targeting both Coalition troops and Iraqi security forces. We said, even back then, that there were only clever IED makers left, as the stupid ones had blown themselves up long ago. The IEDs were getting more and more sophisticated. Radio-controlled switches, using remote... Read more

by | June 29, 2015