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PHOTOGRAPHS BY CPL GREG DORNEY (FROM A RECENT NATO WIT COURSE HELD IN JUNE)
Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) have become an all too regular feature on the asym- metric battlefield, where insurgent groups use irregular methods and tactics to try to nullify the strengths and exploit the weaknesses of vastly more powerful conventional military forces. They have been used to a great extent and extremely successfully by groups across the Middle East in Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan. As we know the Provi- sional IRA developed a very significant IED capability in the 70s and 80s. In the Republic of Ireland today we see an IED threat developing. This feature looks at the development of counter-IED training in the Defence Forces…
THE DEFENCE FORCES MAGAZINE
