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Sharp Corners - Urban Operations at Century's End (Paperback)
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Sharp Corners - Urban Operations at Century's End (Paperback)
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Loot Price R360
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This study was directed by the Commanding General, US Army Training
and Doctrine Command, in the summer of 1999. NATO operations
against Yugoslavia had just begun. Notwithstanding official
announcements that ground forces would not be needed for the time
being, expectations ran high that ground troops would ultimately
have to be employed. The precise nature of the operations they
would be called on to perform could not be foreseen, and
consequently neither the size nor the precise character of the
forces to be committed could be decided at the time. The range of
possibilities was enough to give any commander or operational
planner headaches: American ground forces could be engaged in
direct combat within or beyond the province of Kosovo, then the
focal point of NATO operations, against conventional forces or
their surrogates. US troops could also be employed as an element of
a peacekeeping operation confined to the province itself, or
perhaps beyond, or any gradation of commitment between these
extremes. No one with official responsibility could envision a
scenario without ground troops of any sort. Only one assumption
could be made with any sort of confidence: once ground forces were
introduced, a significant part of their duties would be performed
not in the open countryside but in areas that could to some degree
be characterized as urban. Some such areas might be very small, no
more than a village perhaps, with a population numbering in the
tens. Some might be towns with only a few thousand inhabitants.
Others might be much larger municipalities, with populations
running to the tens of thousands. The question naturally arose: to
what degree was the US Army prepared for this mission, ill-defined
as it was at that particular time?
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