Left of Boom: The Struggle to Defeat Roadside Bombs in Iraq and Afgthanistan [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (Digital)

~ Rick Atkinson (Author)

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A Washington Post series on the effort by the U.S. military to combat the improvised explosive devices used by insurgents in Afghanistan and Iraq from 2002 until fall 2007.

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Rick Atkinson is a Washington Post reporter currently on leave to write a three-volume history of World War II. The first volume, "An Army at Dawn," won the Pulitzer Prize for history.

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• Digital: 32 pages
• Publisher: The Washington Post (October 5, 2007)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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4.0 out of 5 stars The essence of future warfare, July 1, 2008

By	John C. Fullmer (Bellevue, Nebraska) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Outside of a couple paragraphs of typical Washington Post RealPolitik (Bush bashing, doubt Washington Post editors could/would ever publish anything without it), this more than anything else I've read so far illustrates the essence of the military battle/challenge going on in Iraq right now. Without IED's there would essentially no longer be an Iraqi terrorist fight to deal with. Also, learning how to deal with this kind of assymetrical threat "left of boom" is vitally important not just for Iraq and Afghanistan, but for dealing with the overall threat of unlawful intimidation/terrorism anywhere, potentially at home as much as overseas.