Home › Books › Urban Warfare in the Twenty-First Century

Urban Warfare in the Twenty-First Century

লেখক / Author: Anthony King

Premium Hardcover: ৳360 | Premium Paperback: ৳260

Buy Urban Warfare in the Twenty-First Century in Bangladesh at Booksferi.Com. Price ৳260 (BDT). Home delivery all over Bangladesh, Cash on Delivery.

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…

Publisher: Polity Press

Pages: 288

Language: en

ISBN-13: 9781509543670

ISBN-10: 1509543678