If one wants to stick to a definition of IED as essentially a roadside device with command detonation, then IED have a place in Twilight: 2000, but a limited one in comparison to other possible definitions. If we define IED as all manner of improvised explosives, to include home made mines, rockets, grenade, shaped charges, etc., the IED are ubiquitous.
The same principles that are used to create EFP (explosively formed projectiles) are used in all manner of shaped charges. Some further refinement is necessary, but the principles are the same. While a roadside device certainly has its place, we should expect to see a rapid evolution to other shaped charge applications, such as anti-armor mines, anti-armor grenades, and all manner of HEAT warhead projectors.
Fabrication of such devices will tend to favor warlords and more "legitimate" governments over marauders. If maruaders are essentially bandits operating with semi-permanent bases or no bases, then they probably won't have the manufacturing capacity to fabricate explosive devices. This isn't to say that marauders couldn't acquire IED by a variety of means.
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