Hard Broke (Hardback)
Asymmetric Warfare, Great Power Competition, and Institutional Paralysis
Pages: 288
Illustrations: 40 diagrams
ISBN: 9781636244433
Published: 15th December 2024
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The American way of war is enabled by the concept of massing all available firepower—when done correctly it makes US forces hard to beat. However improvised explosive devices have increasingly enabled a new kind of asymmetric warfare, one that conventional forces continue to struggle to counter. This book offers a “counter-IED playbook,” one based upon the author’s experiences of over 90 months of combat operations, working the problem sets of Fires, Effects, IEDs,
Close Target Reconnaissance, Tracking-Tagging-Locating (TTL), and Information Operations.
This text offers insights into the ways through some of the most complicated problems that have tested the Department of Defense, and the Army—the problems of how a conventional force is organized, manned, equipped, and trained to deal with the problem of IEDs; and how the Army is doctrinally organized to deal with an emerging revolution of military affairs.