''People Make the City,'' Executive Summary
Joint Urban Operations Observations and Insights from Afghanistan and Iraq
ResearchPublished May 14, 2007
Today’s strategic environment implies an obligation to preserve innocent life when possible and to rebuild that which war destroys. Urban areas are the keys to nations; people make nations just as, as Thucydides wrote, men make cities. This study aimed to reveal tools that will better enable military and civilian alike to meet national policy objectives by more effectively conducting urban combat and restoration. To do so, the study draws heavily on written material and interviews pertaining to Operations Enduring and Iraqi Freedom. Written information used includes thousands of pages of hard-copy and electronic material, much of it from military personnel still serving in theater at the time of its writing. Interviews include those with members of the American, British, and Australian armed forces and civilians working to reconstruct Iraq. The military personnel represent all of the services and both regular and special operations organizations. The time frame for the study corresponds to two collection phases. Phase I was conducted from October 2003 to April 2004, while Phase II was conducted during three months, from July 2004 to September 2004. The results of a third phase of the study are published separately.
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Glenn, Russell W., Christopher Paul, Todd C. Helmus, and Paul S. Steinberg, ''People Make the City,'' Executive Summary: Joint Urban Operations Observations and Insights from Afghanistan and Iraq, RAND Corporation, MG-428/2-JFCOM, 2007. As of September 24, 2024: https://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG428z2.html
Glenn, Russell W., Christopher Paul, Todd C. Helmus, and Paul S. Steinberg, ''People Make the City,'' Executive Summary: Joint Urban Operations Observations and Insights from Afghanistan and Iraq. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2007. https://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG428z2.html. Also available in print form.
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