ABSTRACT

This book is the first full-length study of a key security issue confronting the west in the twenty-first century, urban military operations - as currently being undertaken by US and UK forces in Iraq. It relates military operations in cities to the wider study of conflict and security in an era of urbanisation, expeditionary warfare and new power.

part |2 pages

PART I: Rationalities

chapter 1|33 pages

Cities and Military Operations

chapter 2|28 pages

Thinking about Urban Operations

chapter 3|25 pages

Technology and War

part |2 pages

PART II: Wasteland

chapter 4|26 pages

Policing

chapter 5|22 pages

Enforcement

chapter 6|48 pages

Warfighting

part |2 pages

PART III: Reconstruction

chapter 7|24 pages

The Evolution of War

chapter 8|23 pages

Controlling Non-combatants

chapter 9|22 pages

The Intractable Nature of Urban Operations

chapter 10|22 pages

10The Logic of Urban Operations