Future war in cities
Subtitle: rethinking a liberal dilemma
By: Alice Hills
Publisher: Frank Cass
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780203323120
Subjects: Military; Urban warfare; HISTORY; Strategy
Description: This book is the first full-length study of a key security issue confronting the West in the 21st century: urban military operations, as undertaken by US and UK forces in Iraq. It relates operations in cities to the wider study of conflict and.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-281) and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Rationalities; title: Cities and Military Operations : Urban Operations ; The Operational Environment ; Future Conflict ; Expanding Understanding ; Key Assumptions ; Structure of Analysis; title: Thinking about Urban Operations : Doctrine ; Characteristic Approaches to Urban Operations; title: Technology and War : The Lure of Technology ; Airpower ; Multinational Urban Operations ; Technology's Supporting Role; title: Wasteland; title: Policing : Categorising Operations ; Environmental Challenges ; The Military Task ; The Limits of Policing ; Unanswered Questions; title: Enforcement : Unpredictable Operations ; Tactical Skills; title: Warfighting : Urban War ; Transitional Wars ; Gozny ; Enduring Features; title: Reconstruction; title: The Evolution of War : Defining Security ; Conflict and Development ; Expanding Operations ; Making War and Peace; title: Controlling Non-combatants : Controlling Cities ; Targeting Civilians ; Control Variables ; Control and Infrastructure War; title: The Intractable Nature of Urban Operations : Analytical Challenges ; Moral Challenges ; Controversy over Weapons ; Reconciling the Irreconcilable; title: The Logic of Urban Operations : An Urban Operations Hypothesis ; Rebalancing Tactics and Strategy ; Future Operations ; Conclusions; title: Afterword.