The Art of War: Urban Warfare

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  @retepeyahaled2961 · 3 years ago

  Urban warfare in some way is "back to the stone age". Kill the enemy (often within arm's reach) while looking him in the eye. Each encounter gives you a good chance of getting killed yourself. That can add up to your almost certain death. Even if you survive these fights, after so many nightmarish encounters, you are lucky to get out mentally healthy.

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  @ericjohnson8222 · 3 years ago

  &quot;The Battle of Manila should probably get its own video.&quot;<br><br>Yep, you already did that one Simon lmao

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  @HumbleAshe · 3 years ago

  Urban combat is one beast of warfare that’s always chaotic. Fictional media always made the image of zipping through buildings/streets, street firefights, or forces leveling whole complexes to total each other exciting as a fictional setting (notably Call of Duty with Modern Warfare, or different battles seen in Star Wars). But when you get to more realistic portrayals of urban warfare in movies or to actual cases of it in the real world, a lot of that excitement goes away due to the tension of fighting in various small quarters, civilian casualties and the image of great cities being reduced to rubble and to a shell of themselves.

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  @LeonardPC272 · 3 years ago

  urban warfare probably as terrifying as it can get <br>like you have to go in buildings knowing people could be around any corner ready to shoot<br>as opposed to frontline fighting where you know the enemy is just up ahead <br>either is terryfying but having to go into a building to kill someone just sounds intense

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  @stevinharper3551 · 3 years ago

  Snipers can not only cover a large area with fire they can also give information back to their command to make better decision

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  @zerofactor7871 · 3 years ago

  I saw a short movie once, can&apos;t recall the name of it but it was about a soldier&apos;s rapid psychological decline while stationed in a very claustrophobic urban area during heavy fighting with local insurgents. I think it was in French, and the theme was set in an African country. It covered a week of time, showing something horribly jarring that happened to the soldier on each day and gradually the appearance of the video became more hazy and glitchy as the movie progressed. By the end of it, all of the dialogue is completely muffled, all the colors are extremely oversaturated and the background noise is chaotic and loud. It was something that really stuck with me, probably the most understandable representation of traumatic mental damage I&apos;ve ever seen.

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  @stevenjohnston7809 · 3 years ago

  It took America a few years to find their groove in CQB, but Russia has a vastly different strategy: just level everything to the ground and who&apos;s left is marked as an enemy. Very effective, but also destructive. It took Vietnam and Korea to figure out that it just turns the entire population of said country against you. The more you damage the population, the bigger grudge they hold.

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  @michaelstamper5604 · 3 years ago

  A friend of a friend served two tours in Northern Ireland in the late 70s. He always said the msin difficulty was that the enemy didn&apos;t wear a uniform. There was no way of knowing if the man walking towards you was going to pull out a pistol, throw a hand grenade, or was just off to the shop for a newspaper and a packet of cigarettes.

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  @luigicadorna2798 · 3 years ago

  Could you do an episode on how Calvary has been used throughout the history of war, its rise, its golden age, and its slow movement towards obsolescence?

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  @igor-sukharev · 3 years ago

  How to conduct urban warfare, a proper way:<br>1. Destroy a city<br>2. Conduct field warfare

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  @notaspy1227 · 3 years ago

  Buildings are awesome during peace but terrifying during war.

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  @glenjohnson9302 · 3 years ago (edited)

  When I was in the specialized training I got was called MOBA (Military Operations in Built-up Areas.) I don&apos;t know what they call it now but it was great training. It covered everything from jungle grass hut villages to downtown Chicago like environments.

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