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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.
In 1997, the US Army began to identify future warfare concepts, such as rhizome manoeuvres, describing: "Future land combat units will exploit terrain by maneuvering for tactical advantage within the folds and undulations of the earth's surface without suffering the restrictions imposed on mobility by contact with the ground."
The house-to-house fighting was vicious and the Canadians made use of a tactic that had previously infrequently been used: "mouse-holing". This tactic involved using weapons such as the PIAT or cumbersome Teller anti-tank mines to create a large aperture in the wall of a building, as houses within Ortona shared adjoining walls.
Penetration of the center: This involves exploiting a gap in the enemy line to drive directly to the enemy's command or base.Two ways of accomplishing this are separating enemy forces then using a reserve to exploit the gap (e.g., Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC)) or having fast, elite forces smash at a weak spot (or an area where your elites are at their best in striking power) and using reserves ...
Urban guerrilla warfare (9 C, 7 P) 0–9. 1993 Russian constitutional crisis (1 C, 9 P) B. ... Mouse-holing; 2008 Mumbai attacks; N. Battle of Nablus; Battle of Najaf ...
Most people enter military service “with the fundamental sense that they are good people and that they are doing this for good purposes, on the side of freedom and country and God,” said Dr. Wayne Jonas, a military physician for 24 years and president and CEO of the Samueli Institute, a non-profit health research organization.
Troops gradually moved into the city by destroying walls within houses to get into the next house (known as mouse-holing/Rhizome Manoeuvre), in order to avoid booby-trapped doors and road-side bombs. The paratroopers advanced by sending several small units to take over houses at the same time and confuse the Palestinians, and relied heavily on ...
Urban terrain is a military term for the representation of the urban environment within the context of urban warfare. [1] Urban terrain includes buildings, roads, highways, ports, rails, airports, subways, and sewage lines. [2] Mouse-holing is one military technique used to overcome some of the physical barriers within the urban environment.