Defense News, via Afghanistan Conflict Monitor:
Faced with an increasing number of deaths in Afghanistan from improvised explosive devices, the Canadian Forces has launched a surge in its counter-IED efforts that will focus on improved training, purchases of surveillance and other specialized equipment, and a concerted effort to shut down networks that are financing and building the bombs. The Canadian military had a number of ongoing initiatives in various branches to deal with the issue of the explosive devices, but a recently created Counter IED Task Force will now coordinate those as well as launch new projects. ‘The task force develops a strategic coherence and brings together a lot of initiatives across the Canadian Forces,’ said Canadian Army Col. Omer Lavoie, head of the task force. ‘A big role for me is to try to channel all that and focus it so we’re all operating on a converging axis.’
No word yet on how many roads they’ll pave.
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