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Grenade Launchers and Bed Sheets: An Invisibility Kit for Urban Combat

Ground forces face a unique problem in complex, urban terrain: a lack of concealment. But the technology already exists for a unique, low-cost, and rapidly deployable solution that could immediately enhance the combat effectiveness of US forces in an urban battlespace.

What the siege of Sarajevo can teach us about Aleppo

Lionel Beehner and Mike Jackson | 05.15.16

In this Washington Post oped, MAJ Mike Jackson and Lionel Beehner argue that the modern history of siege warfare, as evidenced in Sarajevo, suggests a long war of attrition in Aleppo, not an all-out provocative attack to end the war.

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Tag: Aleppo

Grenade Launchers and Bed Sheets: An Invisibility Kit for Urban Combat

What the siege of Sarajevo can teach us about Aleppo

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