Includes more than 20 maps, diagrams and tables.History instructs that for a variety of reasons, cities have always been targets for attack by adversaries. From the earliest of times, attackers came bearing weapons ranging from knives, arrows, and spears, while in modern times, they have brought weaponry the Industrial Revolution made available: cannon, rocket artillery, and ultimately bombs and rockets delivered from aerial platforms and even thermonuclear warheads, not to mention the potential for chemical and biological payloads. In turn, cities have responded to most of these threats. Early on, for example, they thickened city walls and erected other barriers to entry. But attackers seeking to subdue the cities simply countered with new and better weapons. So the game of measures and countermeasures-the adult, and much more deadly, version of the familiar children's game of rock, scissors, paper-has continued apace for centuries.The expert authors of this excellent study focus on the following Urban Operations1) Through the ages - Pre Second World War Urban Combat2) Bloody Stalingrad3) The demolition of Aachen4) Battle of Manila5) The Siege of Hue6) Battle for Grozny7) Fight for Beirut8) Siege of Sarajevo9) The capture of Kabul10) Lightning strike at Panama City11) Urban Terrorism in Argentina12) The US Military in the Hurricane Katarina rescue effort13) The Future of Urban Combat