Author: John Spencer

A Better Approach to Urban Operations: Treat Cities like Human Bodies

John Spencer and John Amble | 09.13.17 | Commentary & Analysis, Urban Warfare Project

Mosul has been wrested from the three-year-old grasp of ISIS. In Raqqa, the cityscape is one of...

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Destroying Cities to Save Them

John Spencer | 08.24.17 | Commentary & Analysis, Urban Warfare Project

Mosul is destroyed. Many of the estimated 875,000 residents displaced by the fighting can’t return...

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The City Is the Battlefield of the Future

John Spencer | 07.20.17 | Commentary & Analysis, Urban Warfare Project

The battle for Mosul represents the future of warfare—and it wasn’t pretty for America’s allies. A...

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Three “Warhacks” for Urban Combat

John Spencer | 07.03.17 | Commentary & Analysis, Urban Warfare Project

The Army does not have a school for learning how to operate in dense urban terrain. Beyond simply...

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So You Think the Army Can Avoid Fighting in Megacities

John Amble and John Spencer | 05.16.17 | Commentary & Analysis, Urban Warfare Project

“The Army will never need to fight in a megacity.” Over the past few months, MWI has published...

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