This book is the first full-length study of a key security issue
confronting the west in the twenty-first century, urban military
operations - as currently being undertaken by US and UK forces in
Iraq. It relates military operations in cities to the wider study
of conflict and security in an era of urbanization, expeditionary
warfare and new power conflicts; its central process is urban
operations, but its context is the changing security environment,
whose features are revealed in conflicts within cities.
Within a framework analyzing conventional operations, the author
identifies the contextual factors that affect operations in urban
environments. She advances an explanation as to why questions of
theoretical understanding and policy response are as important as
tactical concerns, and why cities will represent a politically
significant area in the future. In doing so, Alice Hills
demonstrates that urban operations present a unique set of
political and moral challenges to both policy-makers and military
commanders. "Future War in Cities" offers a rethinking of the
liberal dilemma associated with the use of force across the
spectrum of conflict, from terrorist attacks to major conventional
operations.
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