Team 4: Influencing Insurgent SVBIED Operations Using Traffic Control Points Enhanced with Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Employment Strategies

Abstract

Insurgents have effectively employed asymmetric tactics, such as the use of suicide bombers, as viable threats in urban environments. These threats are often devastating in their physical and emotional effects. They are hard to detect and have proven difficult to thwart or defeat. The U.S. Army has recognized that improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) pose a persistent and devastating threat, impacting unit operations, U.S. policy and public perception (U.S. Army, 2005).