Full Spectrum Urban Operations

This text, Urban Operations: War, Crime, and Conflict, covers the full range of urban operations. As our first chapter, “Urban Security: From High-Intensity Crime to Large-Scale Combat Operations and Everything in Between,” by myself, Nathan P. Jones, and Daniel Weisz Argomedo note this spectrum of conflict includes:

• High-intensity crime (crime wars and criminal insurgencies), such as Brazil’s Novo Cangaço-style high-intensity robberies and raids and Mexico’s distributed (virtual) urban siege in Culiacán on October 2019 and January 2023,

• The urban security crises in Ecuador by Jorge Mantilla, Carolina Andrade, and Maria Fe Vallejo and Michoacán by Fausto Carbajal, essentially terrorism and swarming attacks (including Boston’s Marathon bombing);

• Irregular urban combat as seen in Jacob Stoil's “Black Shabbat: Learning Lessons from the Urban Battles of October 7th."

• Subterranean Operations (SubT Ops) are part of the mix as articulated by Lt Col Andrew Craig, Royal Engineers.

• Both urban disaster response and is covered by Russell W. Glenn in two separate chapters

• The book rounds out with a chapter on civilian protection, which applies in all cases by Sahr Muhammedally.