Concrete Hell: Urban Warfare From Stalingrad to Iraq
Page 26
Ministry of Defense. Operation Banner. An Analysis of Military Operations in Northern Ireland. UK: Ministry of Defense, 2006.
Newsinger, John. British Counter insurgency, From Palestine to Northern Ireland. New York: Palgrave, 2002.
Nolan, Keith William. Battle for Hue, Tet, 1968. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1983.
Oliker, Olga. Russia’s Chechen Wars 1994–2000: Lessons From Urban Combat. Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 2001.
Pegler, Martin. The Military Sniper since 1914. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2001.
Ready First Combat Team, 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division. Operation Iraqi Freedom After Action Report, January 2006–February 2007. Undated.
Rennie, James. The Operators: Inside 14 Intelligence Company–The Army’s Top Secret Elite. London: Century, 1996.
Robertson, William G. (ed.) Block by Block. The Challenges of Urban Operations. Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: Command and General Staff College Press, 2003.
Sheldon, Walt. Hell or High Water: MacArthur’s Landing at Inchon. New York: Ballantine Books, Inc., 1968.
Silverman, Michael E. Awakening Victory. How Iraqi Tribes and American Troops Reclaimed al Anbar Province and Defeated al Qaeda in Iraq. Havertown, PA: Casemate Publishers, 2011.
Taylor, Peter. Brits: The War Against the IRA. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2001.
Taylor, Peter. Provos: The IRA and Sinn Fein. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 1997.
Thomas, Timothy. “The Battle of Grozny: Deady Classroom for Urban Combat.” Parameters (Summer 1999), pp. 87–102.
Trinquier, Roger. Modern Warfare: A French View of Counter insurgency. London: Pall Mall Press, 1964.
Tse-tung, Mao. On Guerrilla Warfare (Trans. Samuel B. Griffith). Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1961.
United Nations. Report of the Secretary-General prepared pursuant to General Assembly Resolution ES-10/10. July 2002.
Van der Bijl, Nick. Operation Banner. The British Army in Northern Ireland, 1969–2007. South Yorkshire, UK: Pen & Sword Books, 2009.
Viollet-Le-Duc, E. Annals of A Fortress. Twenty-Two Centuries of Siege Warfare (Trans. Benjamin Bucknall). Barton-under-Needwood, UK: Wren’s Park Publishing, 2000.
Weigley, Russell F. Eisenhower’s Lieutenants. The Campaigns of France and Germany, 1944–1945. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981.
Whiting, Charles. Bloody Aachen. Briarcliff Manor, NY: Stein and Day, 1976.
Wieder, Joachim, and von Einsiedel, Heinrich Graf. Stalingrad: Memories and Reassessments (Trans. Helmut Bogler). London: Arms and Armor Press, 1993.
Zhukov, Georgi K. Marshal Zhukov’s Greatest Battles (Ed. Harrison E. Salisbury). New York: Cooper Square Press, 2002.
GLOSSARY
AD Armored Division
AI Amnesty International
AO Area of Operations
AQI Al Qaeda of Iraq
ARVN Army of the Republic of Vietnam
ASU Active Service Unit
BCT Brigade Combat Team
BPC Bataillon de parachutistes coloniaux (colonial parachute battalion)
CF Coalition Forces
COP Combat Outpost
DMZ Demilitarized Zone
DRV Democratic Republic of Vietnam
EOD Explosive Ordnance Disposal
FOB Forward Operating Base
HRW Human Rights Watch
HUMINT Human Intelligence
IDF Israeli Defense Force
IED Improvised Explosive Device
INLA Irish National Liberation Army
IRA Irish Republican Army
KPA North Korean People’s Army
LAW Light Antitank Weapon
LVT Landing Vehicle Tracked
MACV Military Assistance Command Vietnam
MLRS Multiple-Launch Rocket System
MNFW Multinational Forces West
MSR Main Supply Route
NICRA Northern Ireland Civil Rights Assocation
OIF Operation Iraqi Freedom
PA Palestinian Authority
PAVN People’s Army of Vietnam
PIRA Provisional Irish Republican Army
RCT Regimental Combat Team
REP Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes (Foreign Legion
parachute regiment)
RIRA Real Irish Republican Army
ROKA Republic of Korea Army
RPC Régiments de Parachutistes Coloniaux (colonial para regiment)
RUC Royal Ulster Constabulary
RVN Republic of Vietnam
SAS Special Air Service
SEAL Sea Air Land Team
SURC Small Unit Riverine Craft
TACP Tactical Air Control Party
TF Task Force
UAV Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
UDR Ulster Defence Regiment
UFF Ulster Freedom Fighters
UK United Kingdom
UN United Nations
UNRWA United Nations Relief and Works Agency
US United States
UVF Ulster Volunteer Force
VBIED Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Device
VNMC Vietnamese Marine Corps
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Louis DiMarco retired as a Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army in 2005 after more than 24 years of active service. His civilian education includes a Bachelor of Science Degree from the US Military Academy, a Masters in Military Art and Science from the US Army Command and Staff College, a Masters of Arts Degree in International Relations, and a PhD in History. Currently LTC DiMarco works on the faculty of the Army Command and Staff College, where he teaches military history and elective courses on the history of modern urban warfare and modern warfare in the Middle East. LTC DiMarco has authored several key Army doctrinal manuals including FM 3-06, Urban Operations (2002). He was a contributing author to the US Army’s Counterinsurgency Manual, FM 3-24 (2006). Other written projects include the Army’s Scout Platoon Field Manual (1994), the first work in the Combat Studies Institute’s Global War on Terror series entitled Traditions, Changes, and Challenges: Military Operations and the Middle Eastern City (2004); and the book War Horse: A History of the Military Horse and Rider (2008). LTC DiMarco has written and lectured on a variety of military topics including urban warfare and counterinsurgency.
Related Titles – General Military Series
epub ISBN PDF ISBN TITLE
9781849088404 9781849088398 Red Eagles
9781780962207 9781849089470 Tank Spotters guide
9781849086509 9781849086158 Soldier I
9781849086523 9781849086431 Counter-insurgency
9781849087292 9781849089241 Conquer or Die
9781849088275 9781849088183 Zombies
9781849088619 9781849088602 Silent Killers
9781849088671 9781849089098 Battlefield Angels
9781849089593 9781849089487 Tonight we die as men PB
9781849089906 9781849089951 Hitler’s war on russia
9781849089920 9781849089975 Sniper: A history of the US Marksman
9781849089944 9781849089999 Samurai and the Sacred
9781849088749 9781849089111 Secret Weapons
9781849088756 9781849089128 Out of Nowhere
9781780960760 9781780960753 Shadow warriors PB
9781780960784 9781780960777 SEALs PB
9781780960807 9781780960791 Hell in the Pacific
9781849089913 9781849089968 Samurai: World of the Warrior
9781849089937 9781849089982 Warriors of Medieval Japan
9781849088695 9781849089081 They Shall Not Pass
9781849088848 9781849089142 Knight
9781849088855 9781849089159 Always Faithful
9781849088862 9781849089166 Hitler’s Armies
9781849088879 9781849089173 The road to victory: From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa
9781849088978 9781849089203 Backbone
9781849088992 9781780962429 The SAS in World War II: An Illustrated History
9781780962214 9781780962405 Iran at war
9781780962221 9781780962412 No gr
eater Ally
9781780962238 9781780962429 SAS Heroes
9781780965963 9781782000891 Allies at Dieppe: 4 Commando and the US Rangers
9781780965956 9781782000907 My Journey as a Combat Medic
9781780967295 9781782000914 Traitor: British Double Agents 1930–80
9781780964003 9781780963990 SAS Ultimate Guide to Combat
First published in Great Britain in 2012 by Osprey Publishing,
Midland House, West Way, Botley, Oxford, OX2 0PH, UK
44-02 23rd Street, Suite 219, Long Island City, NY 11101, USA
E-mail: info@ospreypublishing.com
OSPREY PUBLISHING IS PART OF THE OSPREY GROUP
© 2012 Louis A. DiMarco
All rights reserved. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, electrical, chemical, mechanical, optical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner. Enquiries should be addressed to the Publishers.
Every attempt has been made by the Publisher to secure the appropriate permissions for material reproduced in this book. If there has been any oversight we will be happy to rectify the situation and written submission should be made to the Publishers.
A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN: 978 1 84908 792 6
E-pub ISBN: 978 1 78200 313 7
PDF ISBN: 978 1 78200 314 4
Index by Zoe Ross
Typeset in Palatino & Helvetica
Originated by PDQ Digital Media Solutions, Suffolk, UK
Printed in China through Worldprint Ltd.
12 13 14 15 16 17 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Front cover: US Army soldier in Iraq, 2003. (Corbis)
Back cover: American sniper during World War II. (Corbis)
© Osprey Publishing. Access to this book is not digitally restricted. In return, we ask you that you use it for personal, non-commercial purposes only. Please don’t upload this ebook to a peer-to-peer site, email it to everyone you know, or resell it. Osprey Publishing reserves all rights to its digital content and no part of these products may be copied, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording or otherwise (except as permitted here), without the written permission of the publisher. Please support our continuing book publishing programme by using this e-book responsibly.
Every effort has been made by the Publisher to secure permissions to use the images in this publication. If there has been any oversight we would be happy to rectify the situation and written submission should be made to Osprey Publishing.