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Complicating factors in urban warfare include the presence of civilians and the complexity of the urban terrain. Urban combat operations may be conducted to capitalize on strategic or tactical advantages associated with the possession or the control of a particular urban area or to deny these advantages to the enemy. [1]
Mouse-holing is a tactic used in urban warfare in which soldiers create access to adjoining rooms or buildings by blasting or tunneling through a wall. The tactic is used to avoid open streets since advancing infantry , caught in enfilade , are easily targeted by machine-gun and sniper fire.
John W. Spencer is a retired United States Army officer, researcher of urban warfare, and author.He currently serves as the chair of urban warfare studies at the Modern War Institute, codirector of the Urban Warfare Project, and host of the Urban Warfare Project Podcast at West Point. [1]
Operation Urban Warrior was a United States Marine Corps program created as an exercise meant to plan and test Military Operations on Urbanized Terrain (MOUT) and urban warfare in general. It was developed in the mid 1990s by the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory partly in response to growing problem on inner-city fighting, and especially ...
A rhizome manoeuvre is a combat technique, specifically designed to achieve surprise, as a tactical effect. [2]It is a tactical technique used in urban combat, to effectively strike a sudden blow at the opponent from an unexpected direction.
B. Battle of Bab El Oued; Battle of Bakhmut; Battle of Basra (2008) Battle in Berlin; Battle in the Liakhvi Gorge; Battle of Aleppo (2012–2016) Battle of Amman (1970)
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The Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla (Brazilian Portuguese: Minimanual do Guerrilheiro Urbano) is a book written by Brazilian Marxist–Leninist revolutionary Carlos Marighella in 1969. [1] It is one of Marighella's most publicized works, serving as guidance to communist revolutionary movements that want to use guerrilla tactics.