Concrete Hell

Urban Warfare from Stalingrad to Iraq

By: Louis a. DiMarco

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Paperback | 24 October 2017

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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 - a maxim that the Russian army should have heeded before it launched its operation to seize the Chechnyan city of Grozny. 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 the author, 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. Fighting in cities requires new skills, new weaponry and new tactics. But there is no better way to prepare than to look at the successes and failure of some of the most famous operations in modern military history including Stalingrad, Hue City and Fallujah.

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This is an interesting look at an area of warfare that may well become increasingly important in any future conflicts, tracing the way it has developed since the battles of the Second World War. - John Rickyard, History of War.org

Concrete Hell is particularly relevant to those with an interest in ongoing conflicts in places such as Syria, as well as defence officials charged with developing concepts and doctrine for future military operations. The history of urban warfare, coupled with DiMarco's analysis, should give pause to anyone tempted to simplify the problem of future war or to assume that emerging technologies might permit future armed conflict to be waged remotely, rapidly and at low cost. - Survival: Global Politics and Strategy

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