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What do you mean it depends? What does it depend on? I was hoping that being "the chair of urban warfare studies at the Modern War Institute" [0], the author c
by falcor84 1y ago
What do you mean it depends? What does it depend on?
I was hoping that being "the chair of urban warfare studies at the Modern War Institute" [0], the author could offer some actual advice on strategy. Or what is the institute for? Hopefully not just for writing essays.
As for Israel's strategy towards tunnels, I actually have no understanding of what's going on there, but I can just say that whatever they're doing has not been effective in achieving a decisive victory, and is thus ipso facto not a good strategy. So I'm wondering what might a good strategy have been. The author now has two years of hindsight - could he not use that time and information to offer some alternative approach?
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Spencer_(military_officer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Spencer_(military_officer...
- lukan 1y ago"What do you mean it depends? What does it depend on?" The terrain, your avaiable forces and equipment, the morale of your soldiers, the main goal of the operation, the short, mid and long term plans. Outside reactions. Strength of enemy. Outside reactions, will the enemy get more support if X happens or less, will it matter if key target is achieved before time Y, ... There is no magic bullet for something as complex as urban warfare. If you want to level all, just use a nuke. But there seems to be reasons, why that is not a valid option. If you go with lots of ground troops, you will have casualties. Here the question how much is acceptable to your own population. If you go fast, you achieve a different effect then going slow. Etc. Etc etc.
- breppp 1y agoThe issue is mainly the hostages, as any tunnel or building may contain one that really slows the pace of advance considerably and ironically increases palestinian suffering