IED stands for improvised explosive device; this could be anything that is retooled to create an explosion like old mortar rounds, unexploded artillery shells, and usually incorporates some kind of shrapnel designed to operate like a hand grenade or claymore once it explodes, the shrapnel could be anything from nails, pellets, bolts or even rocks. When discussing strategies to defeat IED's ... thus making it easier to stop them ("Attack the network,," 2009). The next part of the strategy is to train the force which revolves around the idea of training the soldiers in the battlefield to use t...

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