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This book is the first full-length study of a key security issue confronting the West in the 21st century: urban military operations, as undertaken by US and UK forces in Iraq. It relates operations in cities to the wider study of conflict and.
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Military, Urban warfare, HISTORY, StrategyShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Future war in cities: rethinking a liberal dilemma
2004, Frank Cass
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0203323122 9780203323120
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Table of Contents
Rationalities
Cities and Military Operations : Urban Operations ; The Operational Environment ; Future Conflict ; Expanding Understanding ; Key Assumptions ; Structure of Analysis
Thinking about Urban Operations : Doctrine ; Characteristic Approaches to Urban Operations
Technology and War : The Lure of Technology ; Airpower ; Multinational Urban Operations ; Technology's Supporting Role
Wasteland
Policing : Categorising Operations ; Environmental Challenges ; The Military Task ; The Limits of Policing ; Unanswered Questions
Enforcement : Unpredictable Operations ; Tactical Skills
Warfighting : Urban War ; Transitional Wars ; Gozny ; Enduring Features
Reconstruction
The Evolution of War : Defining Security ; Conflict and Development ; Expanding Operations ; Making War and Peace
Controlling Non-combatants : Controlling Cities ; Targeting Civilians ; Control Variables ; Control and Infrastructure War
The Intractable Nature of Urban Operations : Analytical Challenges ; Moral Challenges ; Controversy over Weapons ; Reconciling the Irreconcilable
The Logic of Urban Operations : An Urban Operations Hypothesis ; Rebalancing Tactics and Strategy ; Future Operations ; Conclusions
Afterword.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-281) and index.
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