Urban / City Warfare (merged thread)

[Majormarginal]

I will read this. thanks.

[davidbfpo]

Hat tip to WoTR for this article, which starts with:

Operation Protective Edge demonstrated both the tactical challenges and strategic threat posed by subterranean warfare (i.e. tunnels), which is likely to proliferate in the coming years as weaker combatants seek to evade detection and targeting by air assets.

Link:http://warontherocks.com/2015/04/pre.../?singlepage=1

[davidbfpo]

A short newspaper article by Zoha Waseem, a Karachi student studying @ Kings College War Studies:http://tribune.com.pk/story/919102/p...e-of-urbicide/

Her outlook is global, not Karachi-bound.

From the realm of urban security studies emerge three relatively young frameworks for understanding conflicts in cities: urban securitisation, new military urbanism and urbicide.

(Later) It is imperative that we reorient our internal security policies towards the urban citizen and prioritise citizen security

[davidbfpo]

David Betz has two articles on this topic this month. First on WoTR a review of training offered by the IDF acting as a catalyst for his thinking, which starts with:

I traveled recently to Israel to visit a state-of-the-art military training facility in the southern Negev Desert opened by the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) last year. The facility, at the Tze’elim army base, is meant to simulate urban operations of the kind the Israelis have so often faced in their conflicts with Palestinian and Lebanese militants. Though the degree of emphasis the IDF has placed on military operations in urban terrain has waxed and waned, since the mid-1980s at least it has maintained an extensive training infrastructure for this purpose...

Link:http://warontherocks.com/2015/12/pee...are-in-israel/

(added) Vice News has a 11 minute video report, from July 20154, on the IDF training facility:https://news.vice.com/video/war-game...-urban-warfare

Curiously he notes the Bundeswehr were training there.

On Kings of War a longer article, with some historical sketches to enhance the arguments:http://kingsofwar.org.uk/2015/12/thi...-underground/?

[davidbfpo]

A hour long voice only podcast on the IISS You Tube channel explained as:

This webinar with Antnio Sampaio, IISS Research Associate for Security and Development, analyses the conduct of recent stability operations within large and mega-cities, with a particular emphasis on Latin America. Cities such as Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Medelln (Colombia) have developed an innovative response involving law enforcement, military and development tools for urban security.

Link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNZFRnepKaA