Eli5: Why is Urban warfare feared as the most difficult form of warfare for a military to conduct?
In: 1719
Because you have to worry about killing innocent people. If they enemy is in a field, you just drop bombs on them and automatically win. You can’t drop bombs on a shopping mall, and so you have to expose your vulnerable troops and send them into urban areas to win (if you don’t just level the cities).
Why don’t psychopaths just bomb everything and win?
Because much of the value of capturing an area lies in its infrastructure. The winner of all-out war gets a bombed-out patch of dirt as a prize.
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