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To: LindyBill who wrote (65619)	8/30/2004 6:25:39 PM
From: jjkirk	Read Replies (1) of 794181

Urban Warfare Training...dateline May 31, 2002 Lindy Re: As residents, and journalists, return to Najaf, it becomes clear that the American troops were extremely efficient in killing the Iraqi gunmen, while keeping their casualties down. This, despite the conventional wisdom that urban warfare is bloody and frustrating for the attacker. This is no longer the case. Our troops studied history and the experience of others...: marinetimes.com While Israeli forces were engaged in what many termed a brutal — some even say criminal — campaign to crush Palestinian militants and terrorist cells in West Bank towns, U.S. military officials were in Israel seeing what they could learn from that urban fight..... Israel waged its campaign on one of the toughest battlefields on earth: a heavily populated city. The U.S. military, including the Marine Corps, is eager to learn what it can from the Israeli Defense Force’s successes and failures during the house-to-house fighting while those memories still are fresh...... Learning from the bloody urban-combat experiences of others is not new for the Corps. In the 1990s, Marine intelligence officers interviewed both Russian and Chechen veterans of Moscow’s attempt to pacify Muslim separatists in that former Soviet republic. Likewise, it’s no surprise the Corps’ takes a keen interest in how both sides fought in the most recent round of Israeli-Palestinian fighting....

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