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Article: Urban operations: learning from past battles.
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- Infantry Magazine
- Article date:
- March 1, 2008
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The need to train Soldiers on urban combat, something the U.S. Army has found increasingly necessary since the early years of World War II, has received even closer attention over the past three decades. It is a fact that many of the conflicts in which the United States has been involved have included the need to defeat insurgent forces within built-up areas. The history of urban operations is an interesting one, and each battle offers lessons of relevance to today's Soldiers. City Fights: Selected Histories of Urban Combat from Worm War II to Vietnam, edited by COL John Antal and MAJ Bradley Gericke, focuses on urban combat, and its detailed accounts of some of history's ...