Cheap, simple to use and effective, improvised explosive devices (IEDs) have been the weapon of choice for insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan – and their use is increasingly reported in the civil war in Syria. Sometimes called ‘the artillery of the twenty-first century’, these home-made bombs have been responsible for the majority (nearly 70%) of foreign military casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan, in the same way that most battlefield casualties in the twentieth century were inflicted by artillery.
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