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No environment is more challenging for militaries than a city. No form of combat is more inherently destructive than urban warfare. And yet too often, militaries are both unprepared for the challenges of cities and unable to avoid being pulled into brutal urban fights. In an increasingly urban world, the future character of conflict will also be increasingly urban. This book sets out to understand that future.

Liam Collins is the executive director of the Madison Policy Forum, asenior fellow at New America, and a permanent member with the Councilon Foreign Relations. He retired as a colonel from the U.S. Army after 27years of service. As a career special forces officer, he conducted multipleoperational and combat deployments to Afghanistan, Iraq, Bosnia, SouthAmerica, and the Horn of Africa. He was the founding director of theModern War Institute and a former director of the Combating TerrorismCenter at West Point. He is co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of U.S.Counterterrorism and Irregular Warfare Operations. He earned a Bachelor ofScience degree in Mechanical Engineering (Aerospace) from the UnitedStates Military Academy, and a master in public affairs and a PhD fromPrinceton University's School of Public and International Affairs.