Understanding Urban Warfare
Description :
No environment is more challenging for militaries than a city No form of combat is morenbspinherentlynbspdestructive than urban warfare And yet too often militaries are both unprepared fornbspthe challengesnbspof cities and unable to avoid being pulled into brutal
urban fightsIn Understanding Urban Warfare readers will gain more than just an appreciation of the unique challenges of urban warfarefrom the limiting effects of threedimensional terrain on many weaponnbspsystems and the multiplicity of enemy firing points on a city street to the overarchingnbspneed tonbspminimize civilian casualties and protect critical infrastructure and cultural propertyThe book presents new ways to understand the distinctive characteristics of a variety of citiesmegacities global cities feral cities and even smart citiesand how those characteristics impactnbspmilitary operations in urban terrain Readers will also be introduced to some of the most relevantnbspurban battles in modern historytheBattle of Mogadishu theSecond Battle ofnbspFallujah innbspIraq plus theBattle of Shusha in the Second NagornoKarabakh War andnbspmoreto illuminatenbsptrends and lessons to better understand urban warfareIn an increasingly urban world the future character of conflict will also be increasingly urbannbspThisnbspbook sets out to understand that future