CONTENTS

Foreword

List of Maps

List of Plates

  1   Urban Warfare, Past and Future

  2   An Operational Debacle

Stalingrad, 1942

  3   American Urban Warfare

Aachen, 1944

  4   Urban Warfare from the Sea

Inchon and Seoul, 1950

  5   Complex Urban Warfare

The Battle for Hue, 1968

  6   War in the Casbah

The Battle of Algiers, 1956–57

  7   The Long Urban War

Operation Banner, 1969–2007

  8   Urban Death Trap

The Russian Army in Grozny, 1995

  9   Invading the Urban Sanctuary

Operation Defensive Shield and the Battle for Jenin, 2002

10   Systematic Urban Warfare

“Ready First” in Ramadi, 2006–07

11   Urban Combat in the 21st century

Bibliography

Glossary

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