FORT LAUDERDALE, FL -- The military must improve its ability to detect improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan, and the Joint IED Defeat Organization is prepared to take risk to do so, Lt. Gen. Michael Oates, the new JIEDDO director, said today. With just six weeks on the job, Oates told an audience at the winter meeting of the Association of the U.S. Army here there is "significant" bad news coming out of Afghanistan in terms of the volume of IEDs...
