As Overseas Wars Wind Down, Will US Urban Warfare Skills Degrade?
Urban warfare is an escapable facet of warfare and will only intensify as the world’s population congregates in large cities.
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The Pic of the Day: Urban Warfare
Marines conduct MOUT (Military Operations in Urban Terrain) training during an exercise at Fort Drum, New York.
The Video of the Week: The moment a former Navy SEAL gets shot by an ISIS sniper
The video found below shows three Americans working in a humanitarian support role for the Iraqi Army during the Battle of Mosul in 2017. The three men stormed forward in order to rescue a little girl and two men who had survived a mass-execution by ISIS fighters. They did so with only an Iraqi M1A1 […]
Analysis: 14 dead in attempted Taliban city assault
The Taliban conducted an all-out assault on Ghazni, the capital of the Ghazni province on Friday. Though the attack failed, they killed at least 14 Afghan police officers in the process, wounding another 20. They hit the city from several points of ingress, attempting to overrun it and expel U.S.-backed forces from the city. The […]
Marines test marksmanship training on moving targets
Marines are well known for a number of things: their strict adherence to uniform regulations, the sea bags worth of ego they carry around with them, and of course, their marksmanship. U.S. Marines train to develop competency with their weapons at greater distances than any other branch requires, as well as emphasizing closer range, higher […]
An Israeli special operator’s top unwritten rules of close-quarters combat (Part 2)
Welcome back to the second part of the Top 10 unwritten rules of CQB series. In the previous part we talked about the first two rules about sight fixation and flashlights. Lets continue to our next two rules. But before, we would like to remind you that these ‘rules’ are more of a reminder of […]
Chief of Staff – Special Operations Forces the Model to Prepare for Future Wars
The US Army is still embroiled in wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria but is already planning on the next one, battling it out in mega cities. And the model that their using is being patterned after US Special Operations forces. Army Chief of Staff Mark Milley stated this week that military will have ten […]
Residents of rebel Aleppo face starvation as government forces close in
BEIRUT — With its stockpile of food dwindling rapidly and government forces tightening their stranglehold on rebel-held eastern Aleppo, the Khattab family dreads what could come next. The brutal blockade has brought the family’s side of the city close to starvation, while punishing airstrikes have turned trips to local markets into life-or-death excursions. Over the […]
