Eli5: Why is Urban warfare feared as the most difficult form of warfare for a military to conduct?

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Eli5: Why is Urban warfare feared as the most difficult form of warfare for a military to conduct?

In: 1719

Answer 1

My personal experience with urban hostilities was the extremely large number of possible fighting positions belligerents could occupy while we moved well known routes. Damaged and destroyed structures made movement tougher, but created many more fighting positions for those who would seek to harm us. The physical closeness of waring parties and attempts to force us to side one way or another meant attacks came from known enemies as well as manipulative friends.