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The Nazis had all those things when they went to take out the Warsaw Ghetto, yet the ghetto managed to hold out longer than the whole country of Poland.

Three problems. (1) they held out for a couple of weeks and were then exterminated. "Nobody has ever won a war by dieing for their country, you win by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his." (G. Patton) The answer is not to go into the Ghetto in the first place. Have a line of retreat open. If attacked in overwhelming force you break contact, maneuver and try to get into his rear. Then go after soft targets. Gallant last stands are great for movies. However I would prefer to be under the command of Sam Houston at San Jacinto and make a nation than Travis at the Alamo and make a legend.

(2)Different technology in tank armor. You could kill a panzer with hand held and improvised weapons. Wasn't easy but it could be done. The M1A2 heavy armor variant can shrug off almost anything that is man portable. And that is the key, anything that is big enough to take out an M1A2 is big enough to be seen, and hence taken out, by close air support.

(3)The US army has spent the last seven years receiving a masters in urban a$$ kicking in the Iraqi School of Hard Knocks. These are our guys, not a bunch of Soviet drones. They have learned what worked, and what doesn't. They have been perfecting the tactics for suppressing an urban uprising. The fact that the second assault on Fallujah went as quickly as it did shows that they can operate in urban environments, even where the local population is almost universally against them. And in an American city the SEIU and ACORN thugs will give them eyes on the ground intel they could never even dream of in Iraq.