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Attack the Network – Defeat the Device – Train the Force
The IED — An Enduring Threat Requires Enduring Capabilities
AUSA Institute for Land Warfare Breakfast Series
LTG Michael D. Barbero
Director, JIEDDO
10 November 2011
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JIEDDO Organizational Functions
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Mission: JIEDDO leads DoD actions to rapidly provide Counter-Improvised
Explosive Device capabilities in support of the Combatant Commanders and
to enable the defeat of the IED as a weapon of strategic influence.
Partnership & Outreach
DoD, Services, Congress, U.S. Interagency, Coalition,
Allies, Industry and Academia
Resources &
Requirements
•Seek and respond to
urgent needs
•Flexible multi-year
funding
•EXAMPLE: $350M
dismount equipment
delivered in FY11
Training
Rapid Acquisition
& Technology
•Focused on C-IED & •Material & NonAttack the Network
Material solutions in
training
4-24 months
•EXAMPLE: $24M
•EXAMPLE: $19M for
dismount training
210k units of Pelvic
equipment to training Protection
centers/ home station
• Procurement to
in FY 11
Delivery: 3.5
months
Operations &
Intelligence
•Globally focused
on threat networks
•EXAMPLE:
Responded to
~10,000 warfighter
requests for
support since
FY07
Singular focus: defeat the IED threat — present and future
Armed with unique authorities and capabilities
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JIEDDO Today: Areas of Strategic Focus
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Support the Current Fight
• Effective IED Attacks: Drive down the rate of effective attacks
• Homemade Explosives: Reduce the flow of homemade
explosives into Afghanistan
• Dismounted Operations: Improve Commanders’ freedom of
maneuver
• Iraq Transition: Support our forces in Iraq as the mission
transitions
• Whole-of-Government: Foster whole-of-government approach
to the IED threat
• Improvised Rocket-Assisted Munitions (IRAM): Counter the
threat
Prepare for Future Threats
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The Current Threat
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AFGHANISTAN
Ammonium Nitrate
Pressure Plates
Victim Operated
Command-wire
IRAQ
Explosively Formed Projectiles
Improvised Rocket-Assisted Munitions
Vehicle-borne
Threat Networks: Agile, Adaptive, Linked, Lethal, Resilient
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Countering the Homemade Explosives Threat
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PROBLEM:
• In Afghanistan, calcium ammonium nitrate
produces more than 80% of IEDs and 90% of
casualties
THE HME STRATEGY:
• Produce a common picture of the HME
supply chain and its critical vulnerabilities
• Synchronize and leverage the authorities
and capabilities of the U.S., Coalition and
international partners
• Facilitate a timely and unified whole-ofgovernment(s) approach
• Support Pakistan’s C-IED efforts
The goal is to partner with Pakistan
through Department of State led effort to
address the common threat of IEDs in the
Region
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It’s not just about Afghanistan & Iraq
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OKLAHOMA: 09 AUG 2011
IED Discovered
911 Tip/Pipe Bomb
Natural Gas Pipeline
Perp Arrested
NORWAY: 22 JUL 2011
8 killed / ~ 30 Wounded
VBIED with 3 tons of AN
Oslo
ISRAEL: 18 AUG 2011
13 Killed /19 Wounded
Multiple Roadside IED
Civilians/Military
Palestinian Group
MICHIGAN: 20 SEP 2011
3 Wounded in VBIED
MICHIGAN: 22 SEP 2011
IED Discovered
Restaurant Restroom
Detonated by Bomb Squad
FLORIDA: 16 AUG 2011
IED Cache Discovered
911 Tip
Local High School
Perp Arrested
RUSSIA: 30 AUG 2011
12 Killed /22 Wounded
Multiple PBIED (x3)
Govt Bldgs/Police
Militant Islamic Group
PAKISTAN: 19 AUG 2011
40 Killed / 80+ Wounded
PBIED (W/White
Phosphorous)
Mosque/Ramadan
TTP/Taliban
Wash., DC: 28 SEP 2011
Undercover operation
leads to arrest of man
plotting airborne IED attack
COLOMBIA: 18 JUN 2011
1 Killed / 17 Wounded
VBIED Stopped at Police
Checkpoint
ELN Retaliation
NIGERIA: 26 AUG 2011
18 Killed / 8+ Wounded
SVBIED (50 Kg Exp)
UN Headquarters
Boko Haram
(ALQ Affiliate Group)
YEMEN: 21 AUG 2011
12 Killed / UNDTMD
Wounded
Dual Suicide Bombers
Pro-Govt Tribesmen
Prob AQAP
SOMALIA: 24 AUG 2011
30 Killed / 70+ Wounded
SVBIED & Assault Force
Muna Hotel
Al-Shabaab
INDIA: 13 JUL 2011
13 Dead / 100 Wounded
multiple coordinated IEDs
Dadar, the Jhaveri Bazaar,
Opera House
Mumbai
YEMEN: 27 AUG 2011
2 Killed /0 Wounded
SVBIED (Suicide Boat)
Yemeni Naval Vessels
Prob AQAP
More than 500 IED events reported each month outside Iraq & Afghanistan
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Source: Global IED Relational Database
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Future Threat: Networks
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The Threat Continuum
• An overlapping consortium of networks
• Threat networks operate in an environment characterized by:
– The easy flow of dual-use components through legitimate
businesses
– Locally and readily available explosive materials
– The existence of a generation of combat experienced IED-makers
and facilitators
– Operating in existing and emerging conflict areas
– Expansive C4ISR through the internet and social media
The IED is the weapon of choice
along the entire threat continuum
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Enduring Capabilities
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• Rapid Acquisition and Fielding to respond to COCOM urgent
needs
• Operations-Intelligence-Information Fusion and Analysis
support to all combatant commands and U.S. government
• Training standards for C-IED and Attack the Network
• Weapons Technical Intelligence to analyze and exploit
emerging devices and networks
• Whole-of-Government(s) Approach to maintain a coalition of
C-IED partners
An enduring threat requires enduring capabilities
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Parting Thoughts…
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• There is no “silver bullet”
• We’re in an arms race
• Must deal with the HME threat
• Requires a whole-of-government(s) approach
• Can’t return to the days of “Hillbilly Armor”
• It’s about the devices and the networks that employ
them
• IEDs will remain enduring global threat — operationally
and domestically
The IED is the artillery of the 21st Century
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