Anti-IED Effort Needs Fewer Restrictions: Oates - Defense News: "VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Deployed commanders need greater flexibility and fewer restrictions in sharing tactical information about deadly enemy devices with allies, a key U.S. general said here May 11.
'We have got to knock down the barriers that deny the free flow of technology and information with our coalition partners,' Army Lt. Gen. Michael Oates, director of the Joint Improvised Explosive Device (IED) Organization, told a morning audience at joint warfighting conference.
'We disable ourselves by an inability to share information,' Oates said. 'At the tactical level it is absolutely essential.'"
