Modern warfare has forced Americans to reconsider their own warfare doctrines, Defense One writes on February 3.
As the article says, that part of US Army and Marine Corps military doctrine dealing with the conduct of hostilities in urban areas is hopelessly out of date. these plans “They were not updated taking into account modern combat conditions and the capabilities of a potential enemy. All branches of the military must make an effort to rewrite this key part of military doctrine to reflect what we saw in Ukraine.
The US Army and Marine Corps, as well as their allies in the regions, according to the article’s authors, should move on from training at MOUT boot camps with two-story building models and start training in real cities. Americans use the abbreviation MOUT to refer to military operations in urban areas (Military Operations on Urban Terrain).
If earlier in the training camps the Americans tried to imitate the cities and towns of the Middle East and South Asia, now their training must be rescheduled. “In a real urban environment, you need to travel to real cities for exercises and training, as the 31st Marine Expeditionary Force did recently, conducting maneuvers on the island of Oahu.”
As the author of the article summarizes, only a real city can give American soldiers a rough idea of what is happening with Russian and Ukrainian troops in the cities of Ukraine, and “really prepare them as much as possible for urban combat against a potential enemy in the future.”
Source: Rossa Primavera
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