{"product_id":"9781636244433","title":"Hard Broke : Asymmetric Warfare, Great Power Competition, and Institutional Paralysis by Matthew M D Matter","description":"The American way of war is enabled by the concept of massing all available firepower-when 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 author's experiences of over 90 months of combat operations, working the problem sets of Fires, Effects, IEDs, Close Target Reconnaissance, Tracking-Tagging-Locating (TTL), and Information Operations.    This text offers insights into the ways through some of the most complicated problems that have tested the Department of Defense, and the Army-the problems of how a conventional force is organized, manned, equipped, and trained to deal with the problem of IEDs; and how the Army is doctrinally organized to deal with an emerging revolution of military affairs.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56302408270197,"sku":"9781636244433","price":32.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781636244433.jpg?v=1762792617","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781636244433","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}