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Urbe et bellum.
Urban combat is probably one of the most dangerous forms of warfare today. Not only has collateral damage to the civilian population become a very sensitive consideration, but rogue combatants, by not taking those considerations into play, have also increased their asymmetrical pressure to the extreme, blending into the population and using innocents as shields. Times when a city could be flattened by air raids in total impunity are well over.
Insurgents know perfectly well that they are almost invisible in a city, and should they be identified, they also know that there are very little chances that counter-fire will have opened up on them due to the presence of the civilian population within which they hide. And should an attack against them result in civilian casualties, they are quick to react to stir up worldwide propaganda, as was recently the case in Afghanistan when a Nato air raid unfortunately claimed the lives of 45. Some may point (and have pointed) to the fact that urban warfare is not new. Granted, but what "human correctness" has really spar...See the full content of this document
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