'The Law of War and the Urban Battlefield.' The conversation I had with Major General (ret) Charles Dunlap about the laws of war, urban combat, Gaza back in November is still very applicable. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/urb…)

Playtesting session for tonight's class! The students' designs are steadily taking shape! This week, we are playtesting a game on space acquisition game for USSPACECOM and urban warfare wargame for the British Army. #wargaming

Wargaming « We are coming Nineveh » Nuts! Publishing with my officers. A discovery for most of them. Continuous training is one of my priorities as Battalion Commander. Thanks to Belgian Defence College Land Operations Department for the loan of a game set! Next session with Littoral Commander from Sebastian Bae.

At King's Wargaming playing ‘City and CEMA’ blue forces defending a town in Scotland vs Red forces. Shaping operations complete, kinetic phase starting. Umpired by game designer UrbanWargamer #kclwargamingweek

🤔 Have you ever wondered how the UK Armed Forces prepares the Ukrainians for frontline combat?

📸 👉 The British Army psychologically prepares the recruits for what real combat situations are like.

🗣️ 'That's what they do best'

🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine

It’s launch day! 🌠

We are pleased to present our latest Themed Competition: Protecting Physical Assets from UAS Attack. ✈

Read all about it here: ow.ly/AGsP50Ri0fG

#DASA #DASA Competition Home Office Dstl Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 Department of Defense 🇺🇸 RCMP

There is now an entire hall of all the models they made of French fortifications during the 18th century.

People used to drink tea and coffee, there. ( #OTD in 1945, Arnhem. #WW2 #HISTORY )

#OTD in 1941, Easter Tuesday. The worst wartime raid outside of London. 200 German bombers attacked the city of Belfast. An estimated 900 people lost their lives. #WW2 #HISTORY

“Decisive fights are in the urban areas… [urban is] an increasingly dominant characteristic of modern war.” “Open-space maneuver is becoming less and less common.”
Our own senior fellow, Maj Jayson Geroux, guest hosts this MWI podcast with Dr Lou DiMarco.

An excellent article & 🧵 from my buddy Jesus Roman about the training given to 🇺🇦 troops in 🇬🇧
- Pros & cons
- Urban & trenches
- Commander training

Great ❓ posed about potentially streamlining training to focus on the necessities. Note, #urbanwafare is currently on this list

A couple of years ago I was able to guest-host a podcast for the Modern War Institute's / John Spencer's Urban Warfare Project podcast series, in which I discussed with Lieutenant-Colonel (Retired) Louis DiMarco his efforts & academic urban warfare history work.

Battle scenes from the fighting to capture the major town of Groningen (14-18 April 1945). #WW2 #HISTORY

Urban warfare history has seen its fair share of raids (Mogadishu 03 October 1993; Marawi 23 May 2017) but I will suggest they are not frequently discussed or recorded in detail.
An engaging example of a raid in an urban environment from 0:00 to 1:09 below.

Bad guy #urbanwarfare training. Highly choreographed (and questionable) TTPs, but more evidence that it isn't just us that see this training as important.

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Reflection of the enemy assault under the fierce fonk.

A flock of shock drones covered the enemy infantry when the invaders tried to conduct assault operations on the outskirts of Avdeevka.

The soldiers dismantled the buildings in which the enemy was hiding, overtook and…

Urban operations are not specialists-only tasks, and training should be standard stuff (inc. live fire) just as it is for other environments.
We could do with one of these at Infantry Battle School
The Land Warfare Centre Gd67

I'm not an urban wargamer (yet...despite Stuart Lyle & UrbanWargamer's convincing efforts to bring me into that fold) but I could use the below as a fantastic training tool to teach higher-level urban tactics.
Thanks to Joe for the post & Dr Peter Caddick-Adams #StandwithUkraine for the repost.

Artificial Intelligence for Better Protection of Civilians During Urban Warfare lieber.westpoint.edu/artificial-int…

We are at IT²EC this week at the ExCeL in London with Alliance. Drop us a line if you want a chat!

#defencesimulation #militarysimulation #militarytraining #IT2EC #it2ec2024