Need some help and expertise here in regards to urban military operations. While much work has been done over the last decade (as well as a whole lot of operational experience) to improve our...
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Need some help and expertise here in regards to urban military operations. While much work has been done over the last decade (as well as a whole lot of operational experience) to improve our...
The Coming Urban Terror - John Robb, City Journal.
Liveblogging: Joint Urban Warrior 07
15 November post at the Secrecy News blog - Army Doctrine on Urban Operations.
19 October American Forces Press Service - Joint Forces Experiment Looks at Gaps in Urban Warfare. (Reposted here in full per DoD guidelines).
I will take a look at the doc and you caught my attention with the "spinach scenario" - but that might be a different thread in the "2 Shop" section. Interesting stuff, and scary, to say the least....
My take-away is that you believe that the real value of COIN / Small Wars M&S is "getting senior leadership thinking about COIN." I would submit that if our senior leadership has not been seriously...
Some of you know that I am a skeptic when it comes to modeling and simulation of a Small Wars scenario - especially in an urban environment. I have no idea how an intelligent agent (if and when one...
The Marine Corps Times has posted several more brief clips from the video.
I don't do the distro nor decide who beyond the military can get the DVD. Best I can say is request it from the official source - wargaming@usmc.mil
E-mail here - wargaming@usmc.mil - best from a .mil address, include rank, name, unit and official mailing address.
The Marine Corps Times has posted a very small segment from the EE OIF video - Urban Operations. Not sure, but they may post several more...
29 August Marine Corps Times - DVD Offers Different Approach to Urban Combat by Christian Lowe.
That would be the man... Breaking the Phalanx...
... but the author would not come out and say "exactly" why the claimed edge exists.
If you understand urban operations, the differences in the political and military situations between Gaza and...
7 July Associated Press - Israel Has Edge Over U.S. in Urban Combat by Thomas Wagner.
Air Force Operations in Urban Environments. US Air Force Scientific Advisory Board report, August 2005. Full report at link, summary of conclusions and recommendations below.