Block By Block: The Challenges Of Urban Operations [Illustrated Edition]

Nonfiction, History, Middle East, Persian Gulf War, Military
Cover of the book Block By Block: The Challenges Of Urban Operations [Illustrated Edition] by William G. Robertson, Tannenberg Publishing
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Author: William G. Robertson ISBN: 9781782897781
Publisher: Tannenberg Publishing Publication: August 15, 2014
Imprint: Tannenberg Publishing Language: English
Author: William G. Robertson
ISBN: 9781782897781
Publisher: Tannenberg Publishing
Publication: August 15, 2014
Imprint: Tannenberg Publishing
Language: English

Includes more than 20 maps, diagrams and tables.
History instructs that for a variety of reasons, cities have always been targets for attack by adversaries. From the earliest of times, attackers came bearing weapons ranging from knives, arrows, and spears, while in modern times, they have brought weaponry the Industrial Revolution made available: cannon, rocket artillery, and ultimately bombs and rockets delivered from aerial platforms and even thermonuclear warheads, not to mention the potential for chemical and biological payloads. In turn, cities have responded to most of these threats. Early on, for example, they thickened city walls and erected other barriers to entry. But attackers seeking to subdue the cities simply countered with new and better weapons. So the game of measures and countermeasures-the adult, and much more deadly, version of the familiar children’s game of rock, scissors, paper-has continued apace for centuries.
The expert authors of this excellent study focus on the following Urban Operations

  1. Through the ages - Pre Second World War Urban Combat
  2. Bloody Stalingrad
  3. The demolition of Aachen
  4. Battle of Manila
  5. The Siege of Hue
  6. Battle for Grozny
  7. Fight for Beirut
  8. Siege of Sarajevo
  9. The capture of Kabul
  10. Lightning strike at Panama City
  11. Urban Terrorism in Argentina
  12. The US Military in the Hurricane Katarina rescue effort
  13. The Future of Urban Combat
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Includes more than 20 maps, diagrams and tables.
History instructs that for a variety of reasons, cities have always been targets for attack by adversaries. From the earliest of times, attackers came bearing weapons ranging from knives, arrows, and spears, while in modern times, they have brought weaponry the Industrial Revolution made available: cannon, rocket artillery, and ultimately bombs and rockets delivered from aerial platforms and even thermonuclear warheads, not to mention the potential for chemical and biological payloads. In turn, cities have responded to most of these threats. Early on, for example, they thickened city walls and erected other barriers to entry. But attackers seeking to subdue the cities simply countered with new and better weapons. So the game of measures and countermeasures-the adult, and much more deadly, version of the familiar children’s game of rock, scissors, paper-has continued apace for centuries.
The expert authors of this excellent study focus on the following Urban Operations

  1. Through the ages - Pre Second World War Urban Combat
  2. Bloody Stalingrad
  3. The demolition of Aachen
  4. Battle of Manila
  5. The Siege of Hue
  6. Battle for Grozny
  7. Fight for Beirut
  8. Siege of Sarajevo
  9. The capture of Kabul
  10. Lightning strike at Panama City
  11. Urban Terrorism in Argentina
  12. The US Military in the Hurricane Katarina rescue effort
  13. The Future of Urban Combat

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