Twelve Months of War in Ukraine Have Revealed Four Fundamental Lessons on Urban Warfare
This week marks one year since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine kicked off a war that has offered up a...
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Urban Warfare Project
Lessons from the First Battle of Fallujah: An Urban Warfare Project Case Study
On March 31, 2004, four American contractors from the private military company Blackwater bypassed...
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The School of Street Fighting: Tactical Urban Lessons from Ukraine
The Russo-Ukrainian War has been a prime case study for Western military tacticians and planners....
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Waterworld: How Ukraine Flooded Three Rivers to Help Save Kyiv
Off the eastern coast of central Greece sit high cliffs that once served as a narrow access point...
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Urban Operations in Ukraine: Size, Ratios, and the Principles of War
In late February 2022, a company-sized Russian airborne column of armored personnel carriers and...
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MQ-9s Over Sirte: Unmanned Airpower for Urban Combat
As Russian forces continue to surround Kyiv and conduct urban operations throughout Ukraine,...
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Studying the “Miniature Stalingrad”: the Battle of Ortona
“For some unknown reason,” reported the New York Times on Christmas Day 1943, “the Germans are...
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Defending the City: An Overview of Defensive Tactics from the Modern History of Urban Warfare
Any future war against a peer or near-peer enemy will contain some measure of urban combat. A...
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