MB Civic

By Rick Atkinson | Wednesday, October 3, 2007 | The Washington Post

The final piece of a multi-part story on the front page of The Washington Post this week on roadside bombs and how they have changed warfare itself. This chapter finally explains the meaning of the series’ strange title, ‘Left of Boom’….

“…Ultimately, eliminating IEDs as a weapon of strategic influence — the U.S. government’s explicit ambition — is likely to depend on neutralizing the networks that buy, build and disseminate bombs. Military strategists have acknowledged that reality almost since the beginning of the long war, but only in the past year has it become an overarching counter-IED policy. ‘Left of boom’ — the concept of disrupting the bomb chain long before detonation — is finally more than a slogan….”…BS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/02/AR2007100202366_pf.html