Hard Broke by Matthew M D Matter - 9781636244433

Casemate Publishers

Hard BrokeAsymmetric Warfare, Great Power Competition, and Institutional Paralysis\nAuthor(s): Matthew M D Matter\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Casemate Publishers, United States\nImprint: Casemate Publishers\nISBN-13: 9781636244433, 978-1636244433\nSynopsis\nThe American way of war is enabled by the concept of massing all available firepowerwhen done correctly it makes US forces hard to beat. However improvised explosive devices have increasingly enabled a new kind of asymmetric warfare, one that conventional forces continue to struggle to counter. This book offers a counter-IED playbook, one based upon the authors experiences of over 90 months of combat operations, working the problem sets of Fires, Effects, IEDs, \nClose Target Reconnaissance, Tracking-Tagging-Locating (TTL), and Information Operations.\nThis text offers insights into the ways through some of the most complicated problems that have tested the Department of Defense, and the Armythe problems of how a conventional fo.