Seminal Urban Operations Works

Books

• Understanding Urban Warfare, Liam Collins and John Spencer

• Block by Block: The Challenges of Urban Operations, edited by William Robertson

• Sharp Corners: Urban Operations at Century’s, Roger J. Spiller

• Breaking the Mold: Tanks in the City, Kendall D. Gott

• Out of The Mountains: The Coming Age of The Urban Guerrilla, David Kilcullen

• Future War in Cities: Rethinking a Liberal Dilemma, Alice Hills

• Urban Operations: War, Crime, and Conflict, edited by John Sullivan, Nathan P. Jones, and Daniel Weisz Argomedo

Research Reports

• Future Cities: Trends and Implications, Stuart Lyle, Joseph Bogan and Aimee Feeney, United Kingdom Ministry of Defence, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL)

• Megacities and the United States Army: Preparing for a complex and uncertain future. Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army Strategic Studies Group (CSA SSG)

• City Without Joy: Urban Military Operations Into the 21st Century, Michael Evans, Australian Defence College Occasional Paper No. 2

Articles

• “The Eight Rules of Urban Warfare and Why We Must Work to Change Them,” John Spencer, Modern War Institute

• “Defending the City: An Overview of Defensive Tactics From the Modern History of Urban Warfare,” John Spencer, Modern War Institute

• “Urban Warfare: A Soldier’s View,” Major-General Robert H. Scales, Military Review

• “War and the City in the New Urban Century,” Michael Evans, Quadrant Online

• Our Soldiers, Their Cities, Parameters, Spring 1996, Volume 26, Number 1, Ralph Peters, Parameters, Spring 1996, Volume 26, Number 1