People Make the City, Executive Summary: Joint Urban Operations Observations and Insights from Afghanistan and Iraq

by Russell W. Glenn and Russell W. Glenn

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 Thucydides wrote, men make cities. This study aimed to reveal lessons that will better enable military and civilian alike to meet national policy objectives by more effectively conducting urban combat and restoration.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0833041533
• ISBN13: 9780833041531
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: RAND Corporation
• Length: 92 Pages