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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hills, Alice, 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Frank Cass, 2004.
Temas:
Urban warfare.
Guerre urbaine.
HISTORY > Military > Strategy.
Urban warfare
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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