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ith increasing requency, criminals, insurgents and terror-ists worldwide are using the improvised explosive device,or IED, as their weapon o choice to kill, intimidate andinuence.In Mexico, the recent and unexpected rise and intensifcationo IED attacks underscores a chilling reality: The IED threat isnot limited to Iraq and Aghanistan and will persist beyond thosetheaters as a weapon with global reach. This past all, anarchistsplagued Mexico City with multiple IED attacks targeted at Mexico’s economic center. The groups vowed to continue usingthe IED as a tool to achieve their goals and as a method to wieldpolitical inuence.The cost in time and resources to employ an IED is minimal,and those using them are oten unded by the narcotics trade,have unlimited access to inormation through the Internet andhave readily available access to materials. Adversarial networks,including drug cartels, Marxist groups and anarchist groups,may shit to the IED as increased security and counternarcoticssuccesses decrease access to conventional weapons and increaseincentive to use improvised weapons. Mexico must prepare orunconventional threats as it continues a sustained, eective fght inan entrenched drug war.Following the H1N1 outbreak in 2009, the Mexican government coordinated a response that protected its citizens, deused any threat to its continued global economic trade and prevented a more seriousglobal inuenza pandemic rom occurring. A coordinated, collabora-tive and proactive strategic response to the global IED threat would attainsimilar strategic benefts. As was seen in Russia, Spain and the UnitedKingdom, unexpected high-profle attacks resulted in very serious political,economic and security ramifcations.
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Aware o the strategic and global nature o the threat, the Joint IED Deeat Organization, or JIEDDO, works closely with those responsible or homeland deenseand regional security to prevent improvised explosive devices rom gaining a signifcant oothold in North America. JIEDDO’s extensive coordination and collaboration betweenmilitary, government and law enorcement personnel extends domestically and internation-ally. As the U.S. Department o Deense’s counter-IED lead, the organization works closely with all U.S. combatant commands — including Northern Command and Southern Command
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Agora: "Defusing the Threat"
Client requested a feature-length article highlighting the global nature of the IED threat and the Department of Defense's efforts to defeat that threat. Àgora's counts Mexico as its primary audience and the article was written with…
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