Artillery, bombs & rockets impacting high-rise buildings are today a staple of war’s visual repertoire.
But when was the first high-rise war? Chartbook #104 on urbicide and urban war proposes Beirut 1982. Or should it have been the 1970s?
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In 1994 Barry Posen devised a defense strategy for a newly independent Ukraine which envisioned a Manstein-styel flexible defense v.
In 1994 Barry Posen devised a defense strategy for a newly independent Ukraine which envisioned a Manstein-styel flexible defense v. Russian attack. See Chartbook Newsletter