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Feb. 22, 2024

Small Armies, Big Cities: Rethinking Urban Warfare

By John P. Sullivan

Modern Warfare | 

 Book Review: Small Armies, Big Cities: Rethinking Urban WarfareBook Review: Small Armies, Big Cities: Rethinking Urban Warfare

Author: Louise A. Tumchewics (editor) 

| Reviewed by Dr. John P. Sullivan, instructor, Safe Communities Institute, University of Southern California | 

Dr. John P. Sullivan gives an overview of Louise A. Tumchewics's anthology on the "persistent challenge" of urban warfare and highlights the work's strongest chapters and their value to "commanders and planners of future urban operations." Sullivan mentions chapter author Patrick Finnegan's discussion of "liminality" as particularly valuable and also calls John Spencer's siege discussion "one of the book's core contributions."

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Keywords: World War I, Great Britain, interwar years, mechanization, military attachés