C-IED

Colonel Richard J. Edwards is the Strategy, Plans and Policy Director on the Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Agency's (JIDA's) coordinating staff, also known as the J5. Through the Office of the Und...

Mohammad Sediq Rashid is the director of the Mine Action Coordination Centre of Afghanistan (MACCA). He is responsible for making sure the mine action response, which includes humanitarian demining,...

If there is one common theme linking the limitations of almost all Counter-IED (C-IED) operations it is information sharing. As regional events begin to spill over into global concerns and the hybri...

Aside to the headline-grabbing conflicts arising in Iraq, Eastern Europe and Nigeria, violence in Mali persists. Among the recent attacks made by rebel groups have been those targeting UN peacekeepe...

Countering the IED threat is the most important attribute for armoured vehicles when considering Asian requirements according to a survey of defence industry professionals, with 54% revealing that b...

Photo: thebright.com One of the big questions relating to the reorganisation of the Armed Forces following the withdrawal from Afghanistan relates to the future of Joint Improvised Explosive De...

As some people begin to question the need for the Joint IED Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) beyond the 2014 withdrawal from Afghanistan, Defence IQ was interested to get a view on the matter. Will the...

At the beginning of this year, a full room assembled for a meeting of international armoured vehicle and counter-IED specialists, ranging from military leaders to industry solution providers. At...

This report will explore how the future of the global armoured vehicle market, and particularly the counter IED element of it, is likely to evolve during the period 2013 - 2023. The report is based...

A remote-controlled roadside bomb hit a Kenyan army convoy on patrol at a Kenya-Somali border point in the district of Mandera, killing four soldiers late Thursday. Eye witnesses told Somalia...

Michael Oates, the recently retired director of JIEDDO, has admitted that efforts to counter the IED threat are not working effectively in the provinces of Helmand and Kandahar, where US troops have...