Pentagon report reveals military leaders knew about IED dangers prior to war. Dec. 9, 2008— -- WASHINGTON — Military leaders knew the dangers posed by roadside bombs before the start of the Iraq ...

Second of two parts. Find part one here. This article first appeared in the Stars and Stripes editions Nov. 25, 2009. It is republished unedited in its original form. Wardak province, Afghanistan — In ...

You knew we were in trouble when roadside bombs became “improvised explosive devices” early in the Iraq war. IEDs have gotten so bad that the Army is planning an OCP TECD next week. That’s an Occupant ...

The Battle for Ramadi was one of the longest and most violent urban battles of the Iraq War, yet it received far less ...

‘‘As we’ve improved our armor, the enemy’s improved his IEDs. They’re bigger, and with better detonating mechanisms,’’ said Maj. Randall Simmons, whose Georgia National Guard unit escorts convoys in ...

Sanford soldier Josiah Blystone was on his first tour of duty near Baghdad when he was seriously injured during a routine patrol. He was “just walking along and all of a sudden the IED (improvised ...

In Iraq, the two most ubiquitous weapons were not the kind that the Americans trained against, or to use. The U.S. military that invaded Iraq in 2003 was built to fight a Soviet-like, near-peer ...

Crusty old reporters like to complain that the Internet, Twitter, memes, GIFs, and whatever are ruining journalism and America. But when you look back at, say, the invasion of Iraq, it's hard not to ...