A case for 21st century MOUT facilities
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The increasing urbanization of the world and the transformation of many large urban areas into de facto city-states compels the Marine Corps to address the issues of future urban warfare. The Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory (MCWL) conducted a series of experiments between 1998 and 2000 to try to define how to execute military operations on urbanized terrain (MOUT). The MCWL exercises indicated the uniqueness of MOUT and critical importance importance of training forces to deal specifically with urbanized terrain apart from wooded or open terrain. They also showed that the US desperately needs adequate domestic facilities to conduct appropriate and necessary MOUT training.
Publication Name: Marine Corps Gazette
Subject: Military and naval science
ISSN: 0025-3170
Year: 2000
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The MAGTF officer in Iraq
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The Marine air-ground task force (MAGTF) officers should be trained in multiple skills and have to be more than infantrymen, artillerymen, supply clerks, or communicators in the three block war, especially in Iraq. The MAGTF officers are required to win militarily, politically, economically and intellectually to win the hearts and minds of the people to build trust in order to develop a framework that will be the basis of the future progress.
Publication Name: Marine Corps Gazette
Subject: Military and naval science
ISSN: 0025-3170
Year: 2004
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