Posted on 05/18/2025 3:16:39 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Another characteristic of Urban warfare, is the need to extensively demolish the existing buildings, to preserve the lives of your own soldiers - block by block, building by building.
We aren't pursuing urban warfare the way we did at places like Aachen, Budapest and Manila during WWII. Today, we are much more humane--at least those of us who belong to Western civilization.
Soldiers but no farmers. Those were forcibly evicted by their own government. For the sake of peace (haha).
How soon before they start on the dam?
“We aren’t pursuing urban warfare the way we did at places like Aachen, Budapest and Manila during WWII. Today, we are much more humane—at least those of us who belong to Western civilization.”
The most recent US experience with urban warfare, was supporting Iraqi Forces in the Battle of Mosul against ISIS - the biggest urban battle since Stalingrad.
The same pattern took place, extensive (near total) destruction of the buildings in the contested areas. The only alternative would be to send Infantry room to room (repeatedly, as they could be reoccurred later), incurring losses every time due to booby traps and ambushes.
Before Mosul, The US Forces led the Operations in Fallujah (not in a supporting role), where we also routinely dropped the buildings, rather than sacrifice our Infantry to assault enemy positions in concrete buildings on foot, and try to clear them room by room.
My father took part in the liberation of Manila. We used as much aerial bombing, Artillery and direct tank fire as we could muster, which was quite a lot.
The urban environments being contested in Ukraine today are also being reduced to rubble. It is just prohibitively expensive in terms of casualties to try to preserve the buildings, which are legal military targets.
That is the nature of urban warfare.
Nits make lice clean out the Gaza strip once &:be done with it! Yes I am of German heritage & yes I tend to think in terms of final ,long lasting solution’s
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