IED Clearance Good Practice Guide

2.2.OPERATIONAL THREAT ASSESSMENT PROCESS TRIAD

Tripwire

Main charge, switch, initiator and battery

Image 8. How do MA staff make the decision on whether to tripwire ‘feel’ or not?

The threat triad interlinks three factors:

INTENT

CAPABILITY

Most likely threat

OPPORTUNITY

Figure 1. Threat triad, IMAS 07.14 Annex C

The primary output of the threat triad tool is a threat summary that describes the nature of the assessed IED contamination.

IED threat assessment

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