page_title: Improvised explosive device
section_title: Counterefforts
hierarchical_section_title: Improvised explosive device / Counterefforts
caption_attribution_description: English: IED DETONATOR — A U.S. Marine Corps explosive ordnance disposal technician prepares to deploy a device that will detonate a buried improvised explosive device near Camp Fallujah, Iraq, Nov. 27, 2005. The Marine is assigned to Combat Logistics Brigade 8, 2nd Marine Logistics Group. U. S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Bobby J. Segovia.
context_page_description: An improvised explosive device is a bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than in conventional military action. It may be constructed of conventional military explosives, such as an artillery shell, attached to a detonating mechanism. IEDs are commonly used as roadside bombs.
  IEDs are generally seen in heavy terrorist actions or in asymmetric unconventional warfare by insurgent guerrillas or commando forces in a theatre of operations. In the second Iraq War, insurgents used IEDs extensively against U.S.-led forces and by the end of 2007 IEDs were responsible for approximately 63% of coalition deaths in Iraq. They are also used in Afghanistan by insurgent groups, and have caused over 66% of coalition casualties in the 2001–present Afghanistan War.
  IEDs were also used frequently by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in Sri Lanka.
context_section_description: Counter-IED efforts are done primarily by military, law enforcement, diplomatic, financial, and intelligence communities and involve a comprehensive approach to countering the threat networks that employ IEDs, not just efforts to defeat the devices themselves.
caption: A U.S. Marine in Iraq shown with a robot used for disposal of buried devices
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