Data Bust: Created to Help Counter the Threat of IEDS, the Pentagon’s JIEDDO Turned Out to be a Huge and Very Costly Flop

Kelsey Atherton

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On Oct. 1, 2017, a roadside bomb northwest of Baghdad killed Spc. Alexander W. Missildine. The 20-year-old was the latest American soldier to die in a war that had lasted, in some form or another, since he was in kindergarten. And as much as the Iraq War had changed over the past 14 years, the weapon that killed Missildine—the improvised explosive device, or IED—remains just as potent, and just as vexing, as it was when the U.S. originally invaded Iraq.