Getting Beyond Door Kicking: Four Tasks for Urban Warriors
Ask any group of infantry soldiers what they train to prepare for urban operations and the answer...
Read MoreJohn Spencer | 09.18.18 | Commentary & Analysis, Urban Warfare Project
Ask any group of infantry soldiers what they train to prepare for urban operations and the answer...
Read MoreDaphné Richemond-Barak and John Spencer | 08.31.18 | Commentary & Analysis
Efforts from both sides may not suffice to thaw tensions between the United States and North...
Read MoreMax Brooks and John Spencer | 08.13.18 | War Books
Editor’s note: War Books is a weekly MWI series, in which we ask interesting...
Read MoreClaudia ElDib and John Spencer | 08.07.18 | Commentary & Analysis, Urban Warfare Project
Large, dense urban areas are both the engines of our economic prosperity and the locus of future...
Read MoreJohn Amble and John Spencer | 05.22.18 | Commentary & Analysis, Urban Warfare Project
In 2001, when U.S.-backed Afghan fighters forced the Taliban out of Kabul, the capture of the city...
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