Are Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles the answer to Explosively Formed Penetrators, the armor-piercing bombs that are becoming increasingly common in Iraq? The vast majority of IEDs ...

May 21,2008: In the last two months, Iraqi and American forces have largely destroyed the Iran backed Mahdi army in Basra and eastern Baghdad. In the process, a lot of Iranian weapons and ...

ANDREW COCKBURN is the author of "Rumsfeld, His Rise, Fall and Catastrophic Legacy," published this month by Scribner. PRESIDENT BUSH HAS now definitively stated that bombs known as explosively formed ...

ANDREW COCKBURN is the author of "Rumsfeld, His Rise, Fall and Catastrophic Legacy," published this month by Scribner. PRESIDENT BUSH HAS now definitively stated that bombs known as explosively formed ...

There's no deadlier weapon in Iraq than explosively-formed projectiles, or EFPs. The number of these so-called "superbomb" attacks has reportedly fallen off recently (see David Axe's earlier, related ...

WASHINGTON, May 29 (UPI) -- A U.S. Army colonel in Baghdad said 15 to 20 percent of the improvised explosive devices targeting his troops are sophisticated explosively formed projectiles. The U.S.