{"product_id":"hard-broke-9781636244433","title":"Hard Broke","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Matthew M D Matter\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Casemate Publishers\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Casemate Publishers\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Terrorism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBased on first-hand experience encompassing multiple combat deployments in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Horn of Africa, this book addresses the threat of asymmetric warfare and the future of combat.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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, \u003cbr\u003eClose Target Reconnaissance, Tracking-Tagging-Locating (TTL), and Information Operations.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Casemate Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45608223768727,"sku":"9781636244433","price":2497.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781636244433.webp?v=1768599626","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/hard-broke-9781636244433","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}