Avenues Embattled: Urban Operations in Low Intensity Conflict

Abstract

Changing times have brought with them new definitions of security threats and national interests. Within the military establishment, these changes have especially affected the Army. Thus, the Army is increasingly seeing the need for involvement in operations short of war. The recently approved final draft of FM 100-20, Military Operations in Low-Intensity Conflict, acknowledges these challenges and presents an umbrella concept for the implementation of such operations. The manual also recognizes that the nature of the conflicts, as well as emerging demographics, require a force able to operate in an urban environment. Optimally, this force is a security force, composed of police, paramilitary, and military organizations, and according to FM 100-20, is used only within the confines of a higher internal defense strategy. Unfortunately, the U.S. Army has little experience on which to base actual implementation of such doctrine.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 27, 1989
Accession Number
ADA234150

Entities

People

  • Robert A. Rosenwald

Organizations

  • United States Army Command and General Staff College

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

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  • Civil Disturbances
  • Combat Areas
  • Combat Operations
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Conventional Warfare
  • Guerrilla Warfare
  • Insurgency
  • Lessons Learned
  • Military Organizations
  • National Security
  • Psychological Operations
  • Second World War
  • Students
  • Terrorism
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

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