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Urban Battlefields

Author : Gregory Fremont-Barnes
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1682476316
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book Urban Battlefields written by Gregory Fremont-Barnes and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2024-04-15 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Battlefields: Lessons Learned from World War II to the Modern Era offers a detailed study of the complexities of urban operations, demonstrating through historical conflicts their key features, the various weapons and tactics employed by both sides, and the factors that contributed to success or failure. Urban operations are a relatively recent phenomenon and an increasingly prominent feature of today’s operational environment, typified by on-going fighting in Syria and Iraq. Here, Gregory Fremont-Barnes has enlisted ten experts to examine the key elements that characterize this particularly costly and difficult method of fighting by focusing on notable examples across the modern era. He covers their nineteenth-century roots, and follows with case studies ranging from major conventional formations to counterinsurgency and civil resistance. The contributors analyze the distinct features of urban warfare, which separate it from fighting in open areas, particularly the three-dimensional nature of the operating environment. These include: the restricted fields of fire and view; the substantial advantages conferred on the defender as a result of concealed positions and ubiquitous cover; the often- abundant presence of subterranean features including cellars, tunnels, and drainage and sewer systems; and the recurrent problems imposed by snipers holding up the progress of troops many times their number. Further, the authors consider how the presence of civilians may influence the rules of engagement and also may provide an advantage to the defender. Urban Battlefields illustrates why warfare in metropolises can be protracted and costly. It also illustrates why modest numbers of soldiers, militia, or insurgents with nothing more than shoulder-borne anti-tank weapons or ground-to-air missile systems, small arms, and improvised explosive devices can drastically reduce the effectiveness of much better disciplined, trained, and armed adversaries. Furthermore, it explains how those short-term advantages can be neutralized and ultimately overcome.

Armor

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Armor written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

War Beyond the Battlefield

Author : David Grondin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135711399
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book War Beyond the Battlefield written by David Grondin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an effort to make sense of war beyond the battlefield in studying the wars that were captured under the rubric of the "War on Terror", this special issue book seeks to explore the complex spatial relationships between war and the spaces that one is not used to thinking of as the battlefield. It focuses on the conflicts that still animate the spaces and places where violence has been launched and that the war has not left untouched. In focusing on war beyond the battlefield, it is not that the battlefield as the place where war is waged has gone in smoke or has borne out of importance, it is rather the case that the battlefield has been dis-placed, re-designed, re-shaped and rethought through new spatializing practices of warfare. These new spaces of war – new in the sense that they are not traditionally thought of as spaces where war takes place or is brought to – are television screens, cellular phones and bandwidth, George W. Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas, videogames, popular culture sites, news media, blogs, and so on. These spaces of war beyond the battlefield are crucial to understanding what goes on the battlefield, in Iraq, Afghanistan, or in other fronts of the War on Terror (such as the homeland) – to understand how terror has globally been waged beyond the battlefield. This book was originally published as a special issue of Geopolitics.

A Brief Guide To British Battlefields

Author : David Clark
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1472108280
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book A Brief Guide To British Battlefields written by David Clark and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A very readable work of reference offering a survey in chronological order, from AD 84 to 1746, of the major battles which have taken place on British soil, from the Roman occupation to Culloden, the last battle fought on British soil. In this way, the book can be read as a continuous narrative, while each entry also stands alone as a self-contained guide. The battles are grouped into relevant sections (such as the Wars of the Roses, the English Civil Wars and the Jacobite Rebellions), within broader historical periods. Each period is prefaced by a presentation of the nature of warfare and is enhanced by a feature article of specialist interest. Every entry includes a narrative of events leading up to the battle, a vivid description of the battle itself and an assessment of the long and short-term, consequences. In addition, there is useful information for visits, including precise identification of the location, details of access to and features of each site. The book is illustrated throughout with maps and a plate section.

Concrete Hell

Author : Louis A. DiMarco
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782003134
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Concrete Hell written by Louis A. DiMarco and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by the US Army's Urban Warfare Specialist, this book is the definitive look at how urban warfare tactics have evolved providing invaluable lessons for the US and British Armies of the future. Throughout history cities have been at the center of warfare, from sieges to street-fighting, from peace-keeping to coups de mains. Sun Tzu admonished his readers of The Art of War that the lowest realization of warfare was to attack a fortified city. Indeed, although strategists have advised against it across the millennia, armies and generals have been forced nonetheless to attack and defend cities, and victory has required that they do it well. In Concrete Hell, Louis DiMarco has provided a masterful study of the brutal realities of urban warfare, of what it means to seize and hold a city literally block by block. Such a study could not be more timely. We live in an increasingly urbanizing world, a military unprepared for urban operations is unprepared for tomorrow. Di Marco masterfully studies the successes and failures of past battles in order to provide lessons for today's tacticians.

Soldiers in Cities

Author : Michael Charles Desch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Soldiers in Cities written by Michael Charles Desch and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Communities under Fire

Author : Alex Dowdall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192598147
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Communities under Fire written by Alex Dowdall and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-22 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1914 and 1918, the Western Front passed through some of Europe's most populated and industrialised regions. Large towns including Nancy, Reims, Arras, and Lens lay at the heart of the battlefield. Their civilian inhabitants endured artillery bombardment, military occupation, and material hardship. Many fled for the safety of the French interior, but others lived under fire for much of the war, ensuring the Western Front remained a joint civil-military space. Communities under Fire explores the wartime experiences of civilians on both sides of the Western Front, and uncovers how urban communities responded to the dramatic impact of industrialized war. It discusses how war shaped civilians' personal and collective identities, and explores how the experiences of military violence, occupation, and forced displacement structured the attitudes of civilians at the front towards the rest of the nation. Drawing on a vast array of archival sources, letters, diaries, and newspapers in English, French, and German, it reveals the history of the Western Front from the perspective of its civilian inhabitants. From Leningrad to Warsaw, Hamburg, and, more recently, Sarajevo and Donetsk, urban violence has remained a feature of warfare in Europe, turning cities into battlefields. On each occasion, civilian populations were at the heart of military operations, and forced to adapt to life in a warzone. This was also the case between 1914 and 1918, despite the myth that the First World War was predominantly a soldiers' war. The civilian inhabitants of the Western Front were among the first to suffer the full impact of modern, industrialized war in an urban setting. Communities under Fire explains the multiple ways by which these urban residents responded to, were changed by, succumbed to, or survived the enormous pressures of life in a warzone.

Hotel

Author : Robert A. Davidson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442610948
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Hotel written by Robert A. Davidson and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Intelligent Warfare

Author : Mingxi Wu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000613275
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Intelligent Warfare written by Mingxi Wu and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the future trend toward "intelligent" warfare considering the global environment, the history of warfare, and scientific and technological advancement. It develops a comprehensive set of theoretical frameworks, application concepts, and evaluation criteria for military intelligence. The volume is packed with theoretical highlights and vivid examples, including the tracking of Osama bin Laden, the decapitation strike against Qasem Soleimani, the remote assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists, the drone war in the Nagorno–Karabakh conflict, modern equipment deployed in the Palestinian–Israeli conflict, and the war between social media groups. In addition, the author envisions a possible future for "intelligent" wars in which adversarial parties engage in combat through virtual and unmanned systems. This nature may help avoid the brutality and high death toll associated with traditional warfare. The book explores the possibility of future civilized warfare. It will be of interest to researchers, academics, and students in the fields of politics, military intelligence, and military technology, and to those who are interested in intelligent warfare in general.

The Hotel

Author : Robert A. Davidson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487519133
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book The Hotel written by Robert A. Davidson and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hotel: Occupied Space explores the hotel as both symbol and space through the concept of “occupancy.” By examining the various ways in which the hotel is manifested in art, photography, and film, this book offers a timely critique of a crucial modern space. As a site of occupancy, the hotel has provided continued creative inspiration for artists from Monet and Hopper, to genre filmmakers like Hitchcock and Sofia Coppola. While the rich symbolic importance of the hotel means that the visual arts and cinema are especially fruitful, the hotel’s varied structural purposes, as well as its historical and political uses, also provide ample ground for new and timely discussion. In addition to inspiring painters, photographers, and filmmakers, the hotel has played an important role during wartime, and more recently as a site of accommodation for displaced people, whether they be detainees or refugees seeking sanctuary. Shedding light on the diverse ways that the hotel functions as a structure, Robert A. Davidson argues that the hotel is both a fundamental modern space and a constantly adaptable structure, dependent on the circumstances in which it appears and plays a part.

Nations, Identities and the First World War

Author : Nico Wouters
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350036447
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Nations, Identities and the First World War written by Nico Wouters and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nations, Identities and the First World War examines the changing perceptions and attitudes about the nation and the fatherland by different social, ethnic, political and religious groups during the conflict and its aftermath. The book combines chapters on broad topics like propaganda state formation, town and nation, and minorities at war, with more specific case studies in order to deepen our understanding of how processes of national identification supported the cultures of total war in Europe. This transnational volume also reveals and develops a range of insightful connections between the themes it covers, as well as between different groups within Europe and different countries and regions, including Western and Eastern Europe, the Ottoman Empire and colonial territories. It is a vital study for all students and scholars of the First World War.

Indefensible Space

Author : Michael Sorkin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135925623
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Indefensible Space written by Michael Sorkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showing how the upswell of paranoia and growing demand for security in the post-9/11 world has paradoxically created widespread insecurity, these varied essays examine how this anxiety-laden mindset erodes spaces both architectural and personal, encroaching on all aspects of everyday life. Starting from the most literal level—barricades and barriers in front of buildings, beefed up border patrols, gated communities, "safe rooms,"—to more abstract levels—enhanced surveillance at public spaces such as airports, increasing worries about contagion, the psychological predilection for fortified space—the contributors cover the full gamut of securitized public life that is defining the zeitgeist of twenty-first century America

Geopolitics of the Knowledge-Based Economy

Author : Sami Moisio
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317587774
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Geopolitics of the Knowledge-Based Economy written by Sami Moisio and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in the era of the knowledge-based economy, and this has major implications for the ways in which states, cities and even supranational political units are spatially planned, governed and developed. In this book, Sami Moisio delves deeply into the links between the knowledge-based economy and geopolitics, examining a wide range of themes, including city geopolitics and the university as a geopolitical site. Overall, this work shows that knowledge-based "economization" can be understood as a geopolitical process that produces territories of wealth, security, power and belonging. This book will prove enlightening to students, researchers and policymakers in the fields of human geography, urban studies, spatial planning, political science and international relations.

Financing Terrorism

Author : Michael Freeman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317135067
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Financing Terrorism written by Michael Freeman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without money, terrorists cannot function as organizations and cannot conduct attacks. Yet the questions remain, how vulnerable are terrorists to financial disruptions? Can governments put pressure on their finances in meaningful ways or are they too resilient and adaptive to be affected by state actions? These and other questions about terrorism financing are vigorously debated by scholars and policymakers, particularly since the attacks of September 11th 2001 . While there is a growing literature on policy issues, strategies, and countermeasures, states must first understand their enemies before developing strategies to defeat them. So, instead of focusing on the state response, this book asks a more foundational question: How do different terrorist groups actually raise money? What are their budgets? What do their portfolios look like? How have they changed over time? What are the advantages and disadvantages of different sources of financing? The book includes case studies of 11 different terrorist groups or sets of groups within a country. It is clear that each group has a different portfolio tailored to their needs and their environment and this makes countering terrorist financing more challenging for the state. This topical book will be required reading for all students and scholars interested in terrorism financing as well as those working in government agencies tasked with combating terrorist groups and their financial resources.

War and the City

Author : Gregory J. Ashworth
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134939159
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book War and the City written by Gregory J. Ashworth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-26 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities have evolved from small urban systems designed to withstand attack from without. The demands of the modern city have shifted the focus to the dangers of internal violence. War and the City analyses the role of cities in war and the effects of war on cities.

The Efforts of the Military Services in Implementing Joint Experimentation

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Efforts of the Military Services in Implementing Joint Experimentation written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Art of Darkness

Author : Scott Gerwehr
Publisher : Rand Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0833027875
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Darkness written by Scott Gerwehr and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2000 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research was undertaken to gain a better understanding of the relationship between deception and the urban environment, first to explore the power of deception when employed against U.S. forces in urban operations, and second to evaluate the potential value of deception when used by U.S. forces in urban operations.