A History of Modern Urban Operations
This book investigates the complexities of modern urban operations—a particularly difficult and costly method of fighting, and one that is on the rise. Contributors examine the lessons that emerge from a range of historical case studies, from nineteenth-c
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A History of Modern Urban Operations
Gregory Fremont-Barnes Editor
A History of Modern Urban Operations
Editor Gregory Fremont-Barnes Royal Military Academy Sandhurst Camberley, UK
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Introduction
Various observers predict that urban warfare is on the increase, with recent events in Iraq, Libya and Syria indicating that the battleground is shifting inexorably to conurbations, large and small, so betraying the need for a closer study of urban operations. This trend towards the growing frequency of fighting in cities stems from the increasing urbanisation of societies and the essential need for the weaker side to benefit from the force-multiplying effects conferred on it by the defensive nature of this type of warfare, which ranks amongst the most arduous, time-consuming and sanguinary of all the various permutations of military operations conducted by combatants past, present and, almost without question, future. In the context of an insurgency, one can scarcely wonder why conventional combatant forces seek to avoid fighting in built-up areas whenever possible; where a weaker force cannot operate in open terrain lest it be destroyed by superior firepower and manoeuvrability it often chooses to compensate by seeking the cover of a three-dimensional, highly complex urban environment. The inability of conventional forces to manoeuvre troops and vehicles with ease, and constraints imposed on the need to limit collateral damage
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