"The Eight Rules of Urban Warfare and Why we must..." Topic

… WORK TO CHANGE THEM

"From October 16, 2016 to January 4, 2017, US-backed Iraqi security forces conducted a full-scale city attack to liberate Mosul from the Islamic State. The operation was the largest conventional land battle since the attack on Baghdad during the US-led invasion in 2003 and one of the most destructive urban fights in modern history involving Western forces. The battle saw a force of over one hundred thousand attacking somewhere between five and twelve thousand enemy fighters defending the city. The nine-month battle is reported to have killed over ten thousand civilians, caused an estimated two billion dollars in damage to the city, created ten million tons of debris, and displaced over 1.8 million of the city's residents.

This type of high-cost, high-risk operation—the city attack—will continue to increase in frequency unless the rules of modern urban warfare are addressed in a deliberate manner. In other words, the limitations characterizing the conduct of urban warfare must be overcome…"
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Amicalement
Armand

Make "the rules" even more restrictive than they are now, and the cost in blood will grow exponentially higher, at least for those trying to root out the enemy in built up areas.

Don't get sucked into an enemy's preferred tactic.

(smile)

Amicalement
Armand