Aviation Urban Operations : Are We Training Like We Fight?

By Lieutenant Colonel, Todd G. Kemper, USMC

Book Id: WPLBN0002170490
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Reproduction Date: 10/16/2012

Title:	Aviation Urban Operations : Are We Training Like We Fight?
Author:	Lieutenant Colonel, Todd G. Kemper, USMC
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Language:	English
Subject:	Non Fiction, Military Science, Military
Collections:	Authors Community, Technology
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Publisher:	Air University Press

Member Page:	Air University Press
Citation APA MLA Chicago Colonel, Todd G. Kemper, Usm, B. L. (n.d.). Aviation Urban Operations : Are We Training Like We Fight?. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Description
The author contends that urban terrain has become the preferred battlespace of US adversaries in the early twenty-first century. This environment poses unique challenges, especially to air and space warfare. The difficulty of sorting friendlies from enemy combatants, the latter intermingled with large numbers of noncombatants in very confined spaces, creates serious dilemmas for maneuver and aviation forces. Colonel Kemper believes that this mission, though well documented, has received neither the priority nor the resources necessary to ensure operational excellence and success on the modern battlefield. Thus, he not only inquires about whether we are training like we fight, but also seeks to determine what makes aviation urban operations so complicated and unique that they require stand-alone doctrine, tactics, techniques, and procedures.