For several years, I have been wrestling with a problem the Army never fully resolved after it deactivated the Asymmetric Warfare Group (AWG) and after the Joint IED Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) evolved into JIDO and was absorbed into the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s broader mission set. JIDO’s transition under DTRA preserved some warfighter-support functions, but it also placed the counter-improvised-threat mission inside a much larger institutional structure.
Those of us who worked with AWG, or alongside its offshoots in the counter-IED fight, have long believed its role was not a wartime luxury. It was an indispensable function: a field-connected organization built to observe change, understand it quickly, and help the institution adapt before the next formation paid the price.
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