What does I E D stand for?

Question

This may be a stupid question but I have been wondering about this since they started using it about Iraq.

I can see why they came up with an affreviation, that's a mouthful for something that doesn't even need to be said.

Damn, no spell check on "add details" should have proof read. Abbreviation.

Answer 1

Improvised Explosive Device

Answer 2

What Does Ied Stand For

Answer 3

Improvised Explosive Device

Answer 4

Improvised Explosive Device.

Answer 5

Improvised Explosive Device

Answer 6

Actually it is NOT a stupid question, but a very good one.

The reason they came up with IED is that the military uses terms of art much more carefully than the reporters or the press do.

An example. Reporters... they can't tell a scout car from a main battle tank from a half track from an armored personell carrier, but a soldier needs to know the difference because it can tell him a lot about what he is up against. Military Intelligence people get trained to know that BTR-60's are used by such and such units of the so and so Army, and T-72 tanks are only found in these units, etc. . Individual facts can have great implications in the intelligence game. You get that wrong, and you get the intelligence picture wrong... and you can wind up thinking you are facing a small lightly armed scout platoon when you are really up against a heavily armed tank division. (Go rent the movie A BRIDGE TO FAR to see what this can lead to.)

So the military needs its people to speak very precisely so that everyone knows exactly what is being talked about. Bomb, landmine, booby trap all have specific conotations and implications. "Bomb" denotes something normally dropped from a plane for example. f you get told "This convoy was attacked by a roadside bomb". Well was it really on the roadside or was it hidden, like in a car? Was it really a bomb (as in an old Iraqi Air Force bomb that had been converted, or maybe dropped on them by a plane?) or was it something the guy made up at home? You don't want to say "landmine" because landmines are manufactured by countires and the military knows what types are made by who. "Booby trap" is closer, but that still implies a smaller type of device that is attached to something that the soldier/victim detontates, not the attacker/terrorist.

These things become important because the Army Intelligence take all the reports of attacks and they do statistical analysis of the data. Things like "sniper attacks are down 25% in these areas"... (good thing to know so you can gauge just how well your anti-sniper countermeasures are going) or "we've seen a drop in mortar attacks and an increase in rocket attacks"... good to know so you will know what to look for. Differnt sorts of pipes and materials would be used to make rocket launchers or mortars. If they Insurgents are making bombs at home we will do one thing, if they are converting old Iraqi Air Force bombs and using them, we will do another thing. We need to know EXACTLY what they are doing so we can come up with an effective countermeasure.

So that is why they invented IED. There was need for a term that was precise and clear and descriptive of what was going on, and none of the existing terms really covered the situation, and .

Answer 7

An improvised explosive device (IED) is the common name for explosive devices, often used in unconventional warfare or asymmetrical warfare by guerrillas or commando forces in a theater of operations. In the 2003-present Iraq War, insurgents have made the IED one of their main weapons against occupation forces. IED's are sometimes referred to by the press as roadside bombs.

Answer 8

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