Lessons Learned
Dave Williams is a Senior Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton, a leading strategy and technology consulting firm. His specialty is Countering Improvised Explosive Devices.
In this segment, Dave Williams offers insight into lessons learned about countering IEDs.
Key lessons learned are as follows:
- IED development is easy for terrorists in the United States because materials are readily available.
- Instructions for building IEDs are available on the Internet.
- Terrorists are not easily pushed aside once they have identified a target that they wish to attack.
- A key to success is to create an integrated strategy through HSPD-19.
- To achieve long-term success in combating terrorism, Islamic radicalization must be defeated.
View more discussions with Dave Williams on countering IEDs:
- Mission Integration: Countering Improvised Explosive Devices podcast
- Strategy to Counter IEDs podcast
- Administration’s Strategy to Counter IEDs podcast
- Successes and Failures Countering IEDs podcast
- The Situation in Afghanistan podcast
- Domestic Safety podcast
- Wargaming and Simulation podcast
- Lessons Learned Creating Strategies to Counter IEDs podcast
