Operating in a Denied, Degraded, and Disrupted Space Operational Environment - Jun 2018 Recall for a moment the devastating impacts improvised explosive devices (IED) had on U.S. military operations throughout OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM (OEF) and OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM (OIF). This weapon, varied and plentiful, was the enemy’s lethal weapon of choice. It caught the U.S. Army ill-equipped and untrained to operate within an IED operational environment (OE), IEDs were the number one casualty producing weapon employed against U.S. troops. It significantly restricted the U.S. military’s freedom of movement and it required the U.S. to invest many tens of billions of dollars in countermeasures (counter-IED). The IED was arguably the enemy’s “king of battle” during OEF and OIF. The harsh reality was that the U.S. Army’s training readiness was insufficient at the onset of these operations to provide a high level of force protection and to operate in an IED OE. This handbook also reinforces the Army Space Training Strategy (ASTS) objective to improve the Army’s understanding and use of space capabilities, products, force enhancements and protection to enable unified land operations, especially in contested space operational environments. Why buy a book you can download for free? We print the paperback book so you don’t have to. First you gotta find a good clean (legible) copy and make sure it’s the latest version (not always easy). Some documents found on the web are missing some pages or the image quality is so poor, they are difficult to read. If you find a good copy, you could print it using a network printer you share with 100 other people (typically its either out of paper or toner). If it’s just a 10-page document, no problem, but if it’s 250-pages, you will need to punch 3 holes in all those pages and put it in a 3-ring binder. Takes at least an hour. It’s much more cost-effective to just order the bound paperback from Amazon.com We include a Table of Contents on the back cover for quick reference. We print these paperbacks as a service so you don’t have to. This book is compact, tightly-bound paperback, pocket-size, with large text and glossy covers. 4th Watch Publishing Co. is a SDVOSB. Check out our list of AUDIO BOOKS at https://usgovpub.com