2 Although the scope of LSCO does not include battle for a megacity, a U.S. 1 Large cities may constitute essential LSCO campaign objectives in a limited war to liberate friendly populations, threaten an adversary’s control of its own state, or dislocate an adversary who finds urban battlefields attractive as part of a cost-imposing strategy to deter U.S. Army anticipates large-scale combat operations (LSCO) against a peer adversary to seize or defend a major city in order to control its globally connected, regionally dominant concentrations of power, people, and resources. Army’s updated Field Manual 3-0, Operations, formally reintroduced the context in which the U.S. The 2017 National Security Strategy and the U.S. … Unfortunately, although strategists have advised against it and armies and generals have preferred not to, the nature of war has required armies to attack and defend cities, and victory has required that they do it well. Attacking defended cities has been one of the most difficult and potentially costly military operations. History instructs that for a variety of reasons, cities have always been targets for attack by adversaries.Ĭities have been the dominant focus of military operations for most of human history, and a fundamental purpose of armies has been defending or attacking cities. Army Task Force 464, part of the 3rd Infantry Division, seized the bridge as part of its campaign to move north toward Baghdad.
A car burns on a bridge over the Euphrates River 31 March 2003 in Al Hindiyah, Iraq.
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