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New Army, Marine Corps Manual Lays Out Plans For Future Urban Combat

New Army, Marine Corps Manual Lays Out Plans For Future Urban Combat
Green Berets assigned to 1st Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne), enter and clear a room during a Special Forces Advanced Urban Combat (SFAUC) training exercise near Stuttgart, Germany, Nov. 16, 2017. The SFAUC exercise tests the Green Berets’ ability to lead direct action strikes in urban areas. Urban combat is a skill 10th Group routinely trains on with multinational Special Operations partners. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Christopher Stevenson)

With half the world’s population living in cities, both the Army and Marine Corps foresee intense urban combat as a likely element of future wars, leading to the publication of a new manual on how to fight those battles.In megacities, which will be home to 70 percent of the world’s population by 2050, the U.S. military’s technological and numerical advantages count for less and more blood will be spilled than in any conflict since Vietnam, according to Army Technical Publication…

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