Season 3 · Episode 9
John Spencer: Urban Warfare as the Great Leveller
Western Way of War · RUSI
September 8, 202140m 31s
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Show Notes
Peter Roberts talks to the doyen of urban warfare research, Prof John Spencer, about why strategies of 'avoid and bypass' for urban conflicts just don't work, and why fighting in urban areas is so much more than close-quarters battles and house-clearing drills. It seems Western militaries are going to have to break out of their single-minded focus on manoeuvre warfare if they are going to contest vital spaces in the coming decades.