Fighting Tunnels

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Fighting Tunnels
By Jonathan Cedarbaum
Tuesday, July 3, 2018, 2:00 PM


When U.S. Marines and Israeli paratroopers undertook their biannual joint training exercises in March 2018, the urban warfare segment featured “learning how to fight in tunnels, something marines haven’t had to do since the Vietnam War,” according to the Marines’ battalion commander. The inclusion of tunnel warfare in training reflects increased awareness of the use of tunnels as a method of warfare, particularly in the wake of Hamas’s use of tunnels to launch attacks across the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel helping to trigger Israel’s 2014 Operation Protective Edge campaign. While the military use of tunnels has an ancient pedigree, a number of observers have noted the growing use of tunnels in recent years, particularly as a component of nonstate armed actors’ arsenal of techniques of asymmetric warfare. That trend has now received the carefully researched treatment it deserves in Daphne Richemond-Barak’s new book, “Underground Warfare.”

https://www.lawfareblog.com/fighting-tunnels

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I posted an article last week about the Army training for underground warfare so the issue must be bigger than we think.