IEDs started to be a real threat all over the place um it was been almost impossible as a reporter as a journalist
by IEDs .
in Afghanistan or in IED explosion-- and prior to that they were ostensibly not ill, or healthy.
And the IED has inflicted unspeakable casualties on our soldiers, despite the fact that they have, presumably, a
remotely detonate an IED sitting at your home computer and what we're getting at
sometimes called an IED , improvised explosive device, blows up uh near or in the vicinity of of a service member.
And Taliban then start using the IED approach and being unfortunately quite successful, learning from their successes, and getting more and more successful killing with IEDs .
but most common was an IED blast.
device, the IED , which is, basically, a crudely constructed, home-made mine that some people have
along in a tank like this down the road the IED explode exploded up here knocked me out completely I went down into the
We created jammers to try to jam the IEDs , and then the terrorists would create anti-jamming devices, and this went on and on, and many, many people died.
People were not killed by bombs or rockets or IEDs .
than a year ago was that when we get hit in a spot by the IED that was just about just just just up the if we're going
restore what was um that happened with the Federalists in 1800 about the naturalized unnatural IED immigrants it happened in the 1850s with Irish and
These robots can go in and do a lot with looking at the IEDs and sending back information to operators
could drive more than halfway North through the mallas the neighborhoods without heating multiple IEDs and taking
Baghdad neighborhood of Dora he was greeted with constant enemy Small Arms fire IEDs
And suddenly we were spending-- We spent $6 billion trying to create technology called Defeat the IED
And yet we have spent billions of dollars trying to figure out how to respond to the threat posed by the IED .
told others that I was blaming him and Larry for what happened to me getting hit by this IED since this is one of the
correcting their pronunciation um and Angelina Jolie speaks in something that is sort of mod if IED Old English the
smarter things that we know have some genetic component to them whether that will actually be real IED in your behavior is going to be a function of
What I show in these charts is the monthly real deaths of US combat soldiers due to IEDs .
Over those three years, over 1300 US soldiers died due to IEDs in Iraq.
But you cannot prepare for everything, and what happened to DARPA in the early days of the Gulf War was that a $25 homemade bomb called a IED was very quickly
These are people that were running red lights in Santa Monica, California, because they were afraid that there was an IED at the side of the road.
That peaks right around this time, and right after that, the IED deaths just plummet well before these up-armored vehicles came into the country.
And so for example, my newspaper did a story about soldiers in Iraq, who could look down a street and tell whether there was a land mine, and IED , on the street.
And so I was recovering bodies as we often did, and on the way back from the recovery of these bodies we were hit with an IED , and so I realized: not only am I policing a civil
So you could be going along for hours in a convoy and there's not any fire fight or anything going on, but suddenly an IED goes off so you don't have any warning to put on or in
facing was nothing to do with the plans, nothing to do with the predictions, but that these unexpected IEDs , improvised explosive devices, were going to be the biggest threat to them.