DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 12 Oct) – The title of my article on the book Transfiguring Mindanao: A Mindanao Reader is Local Frontlines of Globalized Islamic States Networks: The Emerging War Arena for…
DAVAO CITY – The title of my article on the book Transfiguring Mindanao: A Mindanao Reader is
But when war happens in a city, it happens where we all can see it. Today, that would happen to an internet-connected community so we get the news in real-time. It’s a city. It makes us think about what if it happened where we are? Marawi may have been another city, yes – but, it makes us register that the threat could very well come for us in our cities, in our homes. And that is why I was motivated to write this article for the Mindanao Reader.
His cadet days did not go as smoothly though – sometime midway, he experienced disappointments and doubts, but with the help of some mentors he was able to overcome these. He went on to eventually graduate at the top of his class. Today, he has three postgraduate degrees and can really talk to just about anybody on any medium.Anyway, Gen.
Thus ignored and unacknowledged, the threat grew in number in secret. And so they became a force for the rest of us to reckon with, but especially the soldiers.Urban warfare features heavy guns and IEDs fought in heavily fortified concrete structures that provide many hiding places and sniper nests. Clearing the enemy would mean destroying these hiding places and sniper nests so they could not be used for those purposes. That often means totally destroying sturdy buildings.
Night vision goggles and heat-seeking rifle sites now make war a potentially 24-hour possibility, unlike in the past when soldiers fight during the day and sleep at night. So no more “harboring” or setting up camp two hours before the sun comes down. The threat out there in the battlespace is 24/7. Money and other resources tend to aggregate in the cities. Urban warfare means houses that can be looted for guns to be added to the enemy arsenal, as well as for money and valuables that could be used to fatten the war chest. It means generators for power supply. It means grocery stores, department stores, gas stations, banks, and drug stores that can be looted for food, funds, materials, and medicines. Thus the entrenched enemy could remain entrenched far longer.
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