8 June 2006

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The Rising Threat of Improvised Explosive
DevicesBrigadier General Daniel B. AllynDeputy
Director Joint IED Defeat Organization
8 June 2006
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JIEDDO Mission
JIEDDO shall focus (lead, advocate, coordinate)
all Department of Defense actions in support of
Combatant Commanders and their respective Joint
Task Forces efforts to defeat Improvised
Explosive Devices as weapons of strategic
influence.
Global IED Events Last 5 Months Does not include
Iraq
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Evolving Threat
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Learning
Adapting
Lethal
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The Adaptive Enemy
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Defeating the IED Threat
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• Innovative, resourceful insurgent enemy
• Quickly assesses lessons
• Enhances demoralizing impact
• Manipulates mass communications
• Frustrates secure environment for democracy
• Strategic Influence

FULL SPECTRUM

• What JIEDDO Brings to the Fight Strategic
  Response
• Coherent focus in support of the warfighters
• Leverage national leaders capabilities
• Forward looking to get ahead of insurgents
• Focused on bomb makers and their network

Those skilled in war bring the enemy to the
field of battle and are not brought there by
them. Sun Tzu
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JIEDDO Strategy Value Chain
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Train the Force
Defeat the Device
Defeat the System
Integrated IED Defeat
OPS/Intelligence/ORSA Fusion Cell
Solutions
Enable Coalition Partners
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Joint IED Defeat Organization
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Because a network is always growing, always
self-organizing, attacks against large hubs must
be undertaken simultaneously.the degradation of
the network into ineffectual islands of small,
unconnected nodes requires that between 5 percent
and 15 percent of hubs be taken down at one time.

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AQIZ Degradation Since JAN 05
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As of 4 May 06
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Operations Roll-up
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Total Tips
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99 Percent of the time, we find the insurgents
theyve identified, the weapons caches theyve
located, the bombmakers that theyve identified
Multi-National Force Iraq, May 11, 2006
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