Accession Number:

AD0513101

Title:

Fighting in Cities Overseas

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

INSTITUTE FOR DEFENSE ANALYSES ALEXANDRIA VA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DIV

Personal Author(s):

• Payne, W. S.
• Taylor, J. G.

Report Date:

1970-05-01

Pagination or Media Count:

80.0

Abstract:

This note describes and discusses overseas urban military operations considered typical of those in which United States forces have recently engaged or may engage. Examples given were selected as representative of organized combat, restricted operations, and advisory and counterinsurgency operations. Salient features of seven urban operations in which the United States has participated overseas since World War II are tabulated in an appendix.

Descriptors:

• *MILITARY OPERATIONS
• *URBAN AREAS
• *COUNTERINSURGENCY
• GOVERNMENT(FOREIGN)
• MILITARY FORCES(FOREIGN)
• POPULATION
• INSURGENCY
• COMMAND AND CONTROL SYSTEMS
• HISTORY
• CIVILIAN PERSONNEL
• MILITARY TACTICS

Subject Categories:

• Unconventional Warfare

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE