Anthony King

Broschiertes Buch

Urban Warfare in the Twenty-First Century

Beschreibung

War is urbanising. From Mosul to Mumbai, Aleppo to Marawi, the largest and most intense battles of the twenty-first century have taken place in densely populated urban areas. In the Ukraine War, Russian and Ukrainian troops have converged on urban areas, Kyiv, Mariupol, and Bakhmut, to fight brutal attritional sieges. Meanwhile the Battle of Gaza rages.    Through a close analysis of recent urban conflicts and their historical antecedents, sociologist Anthony King explores the changing typography of the urban battlescape. Whilst many tactics used in urban warfare are not new, he shows how operations in cities today have coalesced into localised micro-sieges, which extend from street level - and below - to the airspace high above the city, as combatants fight for individual buildings, streets and districts.  At the same time, digitalized social media and information networks communicate these battles to global audiences across an urban archipelago, with these spectators often becoming active participants in the fight.     Fully revised and updated to include detailed examples from Ukraine and Gaza to illustrate the anatomy of twenty-first century urban warfare, the second edition of this popular text is a timely reminder of the costs and the horror of war and violence in cities.  As such, it offers an invaluable interdisciplinary introduction to urban warfare in the new millennium for students of international security, urban studies and military science, as well as military professionals.

Autor

Anthony King is Professor of Defence and Security Studies and the Director of the Strategy and Security Institute at the University of Exeter. He has published widely on war and the armed forces, including a trilogy on military transformation in the twenty-first century: The Transformation of Europe's Armed Forces (2011), The Combat Soldier (2013) and Command  (2019). His latest book Urban Warfare in the Twenty-First Century (second edition forthcoming) offers a ground-breaking exploration of the combat operations in the city in recent history. In addition to his research, he has advised British, European and American armed forces and NATO.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• 2 ed
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 452g
• ISBN-13: 9781509563364
• ISBN-10: 1509563369
• Artikelnr.: 71744831

Rezensionen

"Most contemporary conflicts turn at some point into fights in and around cities. In this ground-breaking work, Anthony King provides an original conceptual framework with which to explore the combined impact of changes in both the urban environment and military practice."
Sir Lawrence Freedman, King's College London

"Anthony King is an extraordinarily articulate and clear-sighted thinker on contemporary conflict - and few topics are more pressing than urban warfare. Mixing sociology with anthropology, geography and history, and adding in a good dose of common sense, he brings theory and practice into line. Both those who think about war in cities and those who have to wage it will profit from this book."
Professor Sir

Hew Strachan, University of St Andrews "Anthony King explores new and unique aspects of urban warfare caused by geographical, sociological, doctrinal, and technological changes in the last thirty years. He mines insights from practitioners of recent urban combat in Iraq, Syria, Ukraine, and the Philippines to examine what has remained consistent and what has changed in urban warfare today - and what the future might hold for military forces faced with this difficult challenge. Highly recommended for readers interested in the changing character of war in the 21st century."
Peter R. Mansoor, author of Surge: My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War

"Anthony King has written an important book that is likely to become the standard text on urban warfare in the twenty-first century. It is comprehensive in scope and offers a sophisticated and multi-layered analysis of how the world's demographic revolution from a rural to an urban environment is taking the conduct of war into the city. This study will be embraced by military practitioners, scholars, and government policy-makers but also deserves a wide readership among all those concerned with municipal security and the sociology of urban violence."
Michael Evans, Hassett Professor of Military Studies, Australian Defence College, Canberra

"The most thorough exploration of the role of the city in combat operations."
Diplomatic Courier