FRONT MATTER

• Abstracts
  

• Preface: The Battles of the Past Shape the Wars of Tomorrow
  by Jayson Geroux and John Spencer

• Introduction: Urban Operations: War, Crime, and Conflict
  by John P. Sullivan, Nathan P. Jones, and Daniel Weisz Argomedo

CHAPTERS

• Chapter 1: Urban Security: From High-Intensity Crime to Large-Scale Combat Operations and Everything in Between
  by John P. Sullivan, Nathan P. Jones, and Daniel Weisz Argomedo

• Chapter 2: Civil Affairs in Antwerp 1944-1945: Critical Infrastructure and Civil Defense
  by Louise Tumchewics

• Chapter 3: Urban Disaster Wrought by Man: The Battle for Manila, 1945
  by Russell W. Glenn

• Chapter 4: Virtual Urban Siege: Modern Urban Siege and Swarming in Culiacán 2019 & 2023
  by Daniel Weisz Argomedo, Nathan P. Jones, and John P. Sullivan

• Chapter 5: Implementing NIMS: Lessons Learned from the Boston Marathon Bombing
  by James M. Duggan, John Petrozzelli, and Jay Slattery

• Chapter 6: Urban Warfare: The Recent Israeli Experience
  by Nadav Morag

• Chapter 7: Artificial Intelligence and Urban Operations
  by Anthony King

• Chapter 8: Wide Area Motion Imagery and the Colonial Antecedents of Surveillance
  by Dinesh Napal

• Chapter 9: The Battles of Hue: Understanding Urban Conflicts through Wargaming
  by David J.H. Burden

• Chapter 10: Why Cities Fail: The Urban Security Crisis in Ecuador
  by Jorge Mantilla, Carolina Andrade, and Maria Fe Vallejo

• Chapter 11: The Political Trajectory of Urban Violence: Organized Crime in Michoacán’s Apatzingán
  by Fausto Carbajal

• Chapter 12: NATO’s path to addressing Urban and Urban Littoral Operations
  by Alex Case and Gordon Pendleton

• Chapter 13: Subterranean Operations
  by Andrew Craig

• Chapter 14: Creating Light at Tunnel’s End: Ukraine’s Post-war Urban Recovery
  by Russell W. Glenn

• Chapter 15: Black Shabbat: Learning Lessons from the Urban Battles of October 7th
  by Jacob Stoil

• Chapter 16: Civilian Protection in Urban Operations: Legal and Policy Approaches
  by Sahr Muhammedally

• Postscript: The Future of Urban Operations in Context
  by David Kilcullen

Appendices

• Appendix One: Book Reviews

• Appendix Two: Book Review Essay

• Appendix Three: Acronyms

Biographies

Dr. John P. Sullivan retired as a lieutenant with the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department. He is an Instructor in the Safe Communities Institute, University of Southern California. He has a PhD from the Open University of Catalonia, an MA from the New School for Social Research, and a BA from the College of William and Mary. He received a lifetime achievement award from the National Fusion Center Association in November 2018 for his contributions to the national network of fusion centers. He is an instructor in the 40th Infantry Division Urban Warfare Planners Course and a Member of the Urban Violence Research Network (UVRN) and the Network of Experts at the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC).

Dr. Nathan P. Jones is an Associate Professor of Security Studies in the College of Criminal Justice at Sam Houston State University. He is the author of Mexico's Illicit Drug Networks and the State Reaction (2016) with Georgetown University Press. His areas of interest include organized crime violence in Mexico, social network analysis, border security, and the political economy of homeland security. Dr. Jones is also a Senior Fellow with the Small Wars Journal–El Centro, a Rice University Baker Institute Drug Policy and US-Mexico Center non-resident scholar, and the book review editor for the Journal of Strategic Security.

Dr. Daniel Weisz Argomedo earned his PhD in Political Science at the University of California Irvine with a focus on International Relations and Comparative Studies. His dissertation focused on the war on drugs and its impact on women’s security in Mexico. He holds an M.A. in Political Science from San Diego State University where he wrote a dissertation on ‘Hacktivism and social movements; and earned a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Alberta where he wrote a thesis on the Mexican war on drugs. He wrote “Climate Change, Drug Traffickers and La Sierra Tarahumara” for the special issue on climate change and global security at the Journal of Strategic Security. He is fluent in Spanish and his research interests include cyberwarfare, the environment, the war on drugs, women’s security and contemporary Latin American politics and history.

“This informative book could not be more timely…this volume addresses…the complex challenges seen today in Ukraine, Haiti, Venezuela, Gaza, and in places that will feature in tomorrow’s headlines.”

— Brian M. Jenkins, Senior Adviser to the President of the RAND Corporation

“Urban Operations: War, Crime, and Conflict is essential reading for academics, policy makers, and security professionals alike.”

— Sean Costigan, PhD, Professor, Transnational Security Studies, George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies

“Required reading for all those interested in understanding the dominant military environment of the twenty-first century!”

— Louis A. DiMarco, PhD, Professor, Department of Military History, USA Command and Staff College

“A most timely and valuable repository of knowledge about urban warfare.”

— Vanda Felbab-Brown, PhD, Director, Initiative on Nonstate Armed Actors;
Co-Director, Africa Security Initiative; Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy; The Brookings Institution

“This is a must read for professionals and all those interested in the modern face of war.”

— Professor Michael A. Hennessy, PhD, Head, Defence Studies, Canadian Forces [Higher Command] College

“…an unparalleled exploration of modern urban warfare, blending historical insights with cutting-edge analyses.”

— Dr. Jorge Lasmer, Professor of International Relations, The Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (PUC Minas), Brazil

“…a must-read for scholars with a keen interest in irregular warfare.”

—Dr. Alexandra Phelan, Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Monash University and author of The Combination of All Forms of Struggle: Insurgent Legitimation and State Response to FARC(Columbia University Press)

“This excellent collection builds knowledge in a key area and will be of great value and interest to both academics and practitioners in the field.”

— Dr. Rashmi Singh, Professor of International Relations, The Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (PUC Minas), Brazil and Associate Editor, Perspectives on Terrorism

“Urban Operations’is an essential resource for military leaders and national security professionals.”

— BG Rob Wooldridge, Deputy Commanding General for Operations, 40th Infantry Division, California Army National Guard