Concrete Hell: Urban Warfare from Stalingrad to Iraq

Военная история, Военное дело, военная техника и вооружение

Автор: DiMarco Louis A.

Серия: General Military

Язык: английский

Год: 2012

Издатель: Osprey Publishing

ISBN: 978-1-84908-792-6

Город: Oxford

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Аннотация

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.