Traditionally, tanks are seen as being at an inherent disadvantage in urban combat. In the 21st Century, however, the U.S. military must be prepared for urban combat in large, densely populated ...

Spencer is chair of urban warfare studies with the Modern War Institute at the US Military Academy at West Point. He served 25 years as an infantry soldier, including two combat tours in Iraq.

Baton Roots not only grows food in those communities to counteract such issues but is also paving a path toward horticultural futures by training the next generation of urban gardeners.

Urban warfare is a unique type of hell not just for soldiers, who face assaults from a million windows or deep tunnels below them, but especially for civilians. Noncombatants have accounted for ...

By Damien Cave Damien Cave has covered urban combat in Iraq and Lebanon. Heavy fire from rooftops and booby-trapped apartments. Armor-piercing projectiles blowing up troop carriers. Fighters ...

In his 25 years in the Army, John Spencer rose from the rank of private to major, did two combat tours in Iraq ... traveling the world studying classic urban battles as chairman of urban warfare ...

pointing out that few people study the details of modern-day urban combat. "It is hard to find people who actually know what the army did in our own conflicts in places like Fallujah and Mosul [in ...

“We’re an infantry unit; this is what we signed up to do.” The urban combat drill was part of Ulchi Freedom Shield, a semiannual, 11-day exercise by the U.S. and South Korea, one of the ...