"City fighting also places enormous challenges on ground forces. Fighting in urban terrain generally favors the defenders, who can place snipers in windows and hide down narrow alleys. Even with precision munitions, it is difficult to use air and artillery power in a dense urban battle. Much of the fighting falls on the shoulders of the individual soldiers, who have to clear the city block by block."
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Jim Michaels, âIraqi forces in Mosul see deadliest urban combat since World War IIâ, USA Today, ( March 29, 2017).
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