Land Warfare Report Takes Fresh Look at Battle of Mosul
Thursday, February 20, 2020
The block-by-block 10-month Battle of Mosul in 2016 and 2017 was won through steel, sweat and blood but not from any new doctrinal concepts, says a new Land Warfare Paper published by the Association of the U.S. Army.
Written by Maj. Amos Fox, a squadron executive officer with the 4th Security Force Assistance Brigade at Fort Carson, Colorado, the paper says a study group report issued two months after the July 2017 conclusion of the Battle of Mosul “reinforces existing doctrinal predilections at the expense of challenging and assessing doctrinal utility.â€
As such, Fox says, it has reduced value. “Reports like this run the risk of telling the Army what it wants to hear and not what it needs to hear,†he writes.
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