Infantry Officer with The Royal Canadian Regiment Military Historian Student of Urban Operations/Student of Urban Warfare History Senior Fellow @urbanwarfareins
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"The future of warfare lies in the streets, sewers, high-rise buildings, industrial parks & sprawls of houses, shacks & shelters that form the broken cities of our world. We will fight elsewhere, but not so often, rarely as reluctantly & never so brutally.
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Short historical urban warfare🧵with photos & resources
Battle of Mosul, Iraq (16 October 2016-20 July 2017)
"The Iraqi procedure involved setting up a strong perimeter around a neighborhood, leaving open an escape route for any civilians still in it.
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- From "Battle of Mosul," by Steven Eden, Modern War magazine #36, July-August 2018.
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If you would like to know more about this particularly challenging urban warfare battle, may I kindly recommend the Modern War Institute Urban Warfare Project case study written by @SpencerGuard & myself:
mwi.westpoint.edu/the-battle…
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"Suscipiat Dominus Sacrificium De Manibus Meis."
("May The Lord Accept The Sacrifice From My Hands.")
– The statement written on the tombstone by the family of the Reverend Bernard Joseph Benson, Royal Army Chaplains Department...
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...British 1st Airborne Division Headquarters, died of wounds 27 September 1944 (82 years ago today) age 30, just after the conclusion of Operation MARKET-GARDEN (17-25 September 1944) during the Second World War (1939-1945).
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Short historical urban warfare🧵that discusses an event that occurred 26 September 1950 (76 years ago today)
2nd Battle of Seoul (20-29 September 1950).
With thanks to @ForgottenWarPic for the post & photos below.
Marines fighting in the streets of Seoul, as they recapture the capital of South Korea from the North Korean communists. September 22-28, 1950
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Marine positions were covered in a river of over 30,000 brass casings from the battalion's 10 x .50 calibre M2 Browning heavy machine guns that had been fired during the 12 hours of fighting.
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Puller flashed a rare grin and forwarded the results of the battle up the chain of command.
From "Battle of the Barricades: U.S. Marines in the Recapture of Seoul," by Colonel Joseph H. Alexander.
koreanwar.org/kwp2/usmckorea…
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