"Regards Urban Warfare, read up on the Warsaw Uprisings (Jewish Ghetto in 1943 and the Home Army in 1944) for tidbits and incites on sewers and tunnels. Also, Stalingrad 1942-43 is excellent source for house-to-house issues. (Hitler specifically avoided investing Leningrad and intended to surround Moscow in 1941 in order to avoid casualties. He also wanted to avoid having to deal with the civilian refugees and the logistical burden they would impose. He ordered refugees to be driven back by fire into the direction of the enemy. Later, in 1942, he got too swelled a head and forgot everything at Stalingrad and the results were catastrophic.) Finally, check out Russian entry into Berlin in 1945. Casualties were enormous.

Next, look at Beirut to see what it's like to hold a town and keep the peace. Car bombs bring down whole buildings and, conceiveably, city blocks. Also, don't forget that whenever you bomb something, wait 2 hours and do it again if you want to take out civil defense and rescue teams. Otherwise, wait 6-24 hours and take out civilian onlookers, too.

Keep up the fight".

Internet Search Engines:

Meta-Crawler is your "quick strike" capability to find things if you are in a hurry. Not exhaustive, but gives you what's there.

Northern Light provides www search plus hits in its special collection. The special collection provides information from over 2,900 journals, books, magazines, databases and newswires not available on any other search engine. For example, a search for "urban combat" would hit on MOUT related articles from past issues of the Marine Corps Gazette. These articles can be purchased online for one to four dollars and be accessed instantly. Another Northern Light feature are custom search folders that aid in narrowing down a search that has multiple hits.

AltaVista's advanced and simple search integrates multiple search engines to provide excellent search results. AltaVista also provides an Internet language translation site where you provide either plain text or an address (url) for translation. Languages currently available for translation are English, Italian, Spanish, German, Portuguese, and French.

HotBot (Rave reviews, integrated results)

U.S. Army:

Command and General Staff College (CGSC)
Foreign Military Studies Office (FMSO, regional military and security assessments, a full listing of their products can be found at their Publication Listing.)
Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL, Virtual Research Library)
Article and Review Essay Site (U.S. Army War College's Quarterly Parameters)
Functional Studies - - Operations Other Than War (U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute)
Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin (U.S. Army Intelligence Center)
U.S. Army Center for Engineer Lessons Learned (CELL)
Warfighter's Web (NBC, U.S. Army Chemical School)
U.S. Army Center of Military History (CMH)
Topographic Engineering Center (TEC)
J.F.K. Special Warfare Center and School (Special Warfare, PDF format)
U.S. Army Europe Lessons Learned

Other Sites:

Jane's Information Group
Special Operations.Com (Extensive Internet guide to Special Operations)
Canadian Security Intelligence Service
Air Combat Command Center for Lessons Learned (U.S. Air Force, requires .mil or .af.mil DNS registration to access)
United Nations (UN)
National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA)
Federal Emergency Management Office (FEMA)
Emergency Management Australia (EMA)
Emergency Response and Research Institute (ERRI, Emergency Net)
Hazards and Risks Virtual Library (Civil disturbances, fires, geological events)
Terrorism Counter-terrorism Page (ERRI)
The Terrorism Research Center
Patterns of Global Terrorism (State Department studies)
Peace Operations and OOTW Page (National Defense University's Insitute of National Strategic Studies)
Military Parade (Russian defense magazine)
The History Net (THN)
Conflict Studies Research Center (CSRC, Royal Military Academy (RMA) Sandhurst, UK)
Canadian Army Lessons Learned Center (ALLC)
Naval Historical Center (NHC, U.S. Navy)
Australian Defence Force Peacekeeping Center (ADFPKC)
Federation of American Scientists (FAS, Military Analysis Network)
Military Doctrine Related Websites (U.S.)
Patrol - Links (Danish site, in English, numerous tactical links)