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Fremont-Barnes (Ed.), a History of Modern Urban Operations, Https INDEX A Army Group Centre, 84, 161, 164, Abderrahmane, Hamened, 203 170 Abercorn Restaurant bombing, 293 Army Group Vistula, 164, 168, 175 AC130 Spectre, 335 Army of the Republic of Vietnam Al Anbar, 322, 339, 340 (ARVN), 219, 220, 222, 224– Al Fajr, Operation, 330 227, 235, 236, 238–240, 254, Alleg, Henri, 207 258–261, 264–269, 272, 274 Alliance Party, 303 artillery, 1, 4, 7, 8, 10–12, 16, 26, 40, Almeida, 17, 18, 23 41, 44, 46, 47, 49–51, 60, 63, al Qaeda (AQ), 326, 336 69–71, 73, 76, 79, 81, 86, 88, Amtracks, 329, 336, 337, 339 91, 92, 104, 105, 108–117, 121, Andersonstown, 302, 305 122, 132–134, 137–144, 149, Anglo-Irish Agreement, 311 161, 162, 165, 167–172, 177, Anglo-Irish War of Independence, 289 179, 193, 215, 222, 225, 227, anti-tank guns, 50 231–234, 238, 260, 267, 268, Apache attack helicopter, 332, 335 326, 332, 338 Ardennes, 104, 159 Audin, Maurice, 207 Ardoyne, 297, 298, 300 Aussaresses, Major Paul, 195, 201, armoured bulldozers, 110, 330, 339 204, 207, 216 armoured personnel carriers (APCs), 105, 111, 268, 336 armoured vehicles, 112, 161, 172, B 328, 330, 333, 336–339 Badajoz, 17, 18 Army Group A (AGA), 61, 64–66, Baghdad, vi, vii, 322, 326, 327, 340 84, 99 Bagration, Operation, 159 Army Group B (AGB), 61, 62, 64–66 Bailen, 3 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020 363 G. Fremont-Barnes (ed.), A History of Modern Urban Operations, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27088-9 364 INDEX Ballykelly, 294 Bullen-Smith, Charles, 107 Banner, Operation, 297, 310, 313, Bülow von Dennewitz, Count, 24, 25, 316, 317 27, 28 Barbarossa, Operation, 56, 60, 65–67, Bunker, Ellsworth, 263, 276 95 Burma, 129, 130, 146 Barberousse prison, 191 Busse, General Theodore, 168–170 Barrikady Gun Factory, 69, 70, 80 Belfast City Centre Security Segment, 292, 293, 295, 296 C Belgium, 2, 23 Calcar, 114 Berlin Defence Area, 161, 164, 169 Cambodia, 257 Bigeard, Marcel (Colonel), 196, 197, Camp Fallujah, 326, 329–332, 335, 200–202, 204, 205, 208–210, 340 216 Casbah, 185, 188, 190, 191, 194, Blackhawk, 326, 332, 340 199–202, 204, 207–210, 214, Blackwater, 325, 326, 336 216, 322, 336 Blau 1, 57 Casells, Brigadier James, 107 Blau 2, 57, 61, 62, 96 Caucasus, 57, 61, 65, 66, 84, 99 Blau 3, 57, 61, 64, 66 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Blau 4, 57 256, 261, 278, 280 bled, 212 Central Offce of South Vietnam Blockbuster, Operation, 114 (COSVN), 258, 260, 274 ‘Bloody Friday’, 293 Centre de coordination interarmées, Blücher, Marshal Gebhard von, 23–25 200 Bock, Field Marshal, 61, 62 Challe Offensive, 212 bouclage, 186 Chiang Kai-shek, 36, 38, 43 Bouhired, Djamilla, 203, 207 Chinook, 326, 332 Bouhired, Moustapha, 203 Cholon, 267–269 Boumendjel, Ali, 204 Chuikov, Lieutenant General Vasily, Bowden, Lieutenant Colonel Colin, 68–70, 72, 73, 75, 76, 78–81, 298, 299, 316 83–87, 89, 93, 94, 97, 162, Bradley Armoured Fighting Vehicles 167–169, 176 (AFVs), 330, 331, 333, 334 Citadel, 224–228, 230, 233, 238, Bradley, Gerry ‘Whitey’, 296 240, 243 Bread Factory, 70, 88, 90–93 Ciudad Rodrigo, 17, 18 Breedeweg, 109 Clausewitz, Carl von, vi, 66, 84, 94, Bremer, Paul, 322 270, 314 Brennan, Brendan, 305 Coalition Provisional Authority, 322 British Army, 288–292, 303, 308, Cobra attack helicopter, 332 309, 312, 313, 315, 318, 322, colons, 186, 189–191, 214 348 Comité de Coordination et d’Exécu- British 14th Army, 130, 147 tion (Coordination and Action INDEX 365 Committee, CCE), 189, 201, F 202, 204 Falls Road Curfew, 302, 317 commandos de chasse, 212 Fallujah Brigade, 326, 327 Constantine, 192 Fedayeen, 322 Coso, 8, 9 Ferey, General Claude François, 18, Craufurd, Major General Robert, 18 20, 22, 23 Crerar, Lieutenant-General Harry, 104 Fermanagh, 309 Cumberland Trail, Operation, 228 F15 fghter, 332 F18 fghter, 332 Fiebig, Major-General Heinz, 105 D 51st Highland Infantry Division, 103 Damascus, 322 53rd Welsh Division, 105 Da Nang, 219, 223, 238, 261 1st Canadian Army, 104 de Bollardière, Jacques Paris, 205, 206 Francofonte, 108 De Gaulle, Charles, 189, 193 Froger, Amédée, 191 De-Militarized Zone (DMZ), 223, Frontiers, Battle of the, 189, 212 225 Führer bunker, 165 Developments, Concepts and Doctrine Führer Directive 41, 57, 65 Centre (DCDC), 346, 359, 360 Führer Directive 45, 65 Devers, Lieutenant-General Jacob, 104 Devlin, Paddy, 301, 302, 305, 307, 316, 317 G Dispositif de protection urbaine (Urban General Offensive-General Uprising, Security Organisation, DUP), 257, 259, 260, 274 200, 201 Gennep, 103, 105, 109, 110, 119– Dispositif opérationnel de protec- 121, 123 tion (Operational Security Germany, 55–57, 59, 68, 84, 95, 104, Organisation, DOP), 200 124, 153, 155, 156, 158, 159, Donegall Street bombing, 293 173, 176, 177, 179, 353 Dong Duc Training Center, 236 Goch, 103, 104, 107, 110–114, 118, Don, River, 57, 61, 62, 64–67, 80 120–122 Dreamland, 323, 324, 326, 328 Godard, Colonel Yves, 195, 196, 200, Drones, 172, 329, 332 207–210 Drouet, General Jean Baptiste, 22 Goebbels, Joseph, 176 Good Friday Agreement, 288, 312 Grafwegen, 109, 121 E Grant-Peterkin, Lieutenant-Colonel Eisenhower, General Dwight D., 104 James, 116–124 El Alamein, Battle of, 107 Grenade, Operation, 104, 105, 114 Elbe, River, 156, 161, 170 grenades, 9, 11, 14, 15, 76, 79, 91, Euphrates, River, 322–324, 327, 329, 92, 109, 119, 120, 137, 192, 331, 335, 336 210, 232, 264, 268, 337 366 INDEX Grouchy, Marshal Emmanuel de, 24, I 25 Imperial Palace of Peace, 224 Grozny, vii, 57, 65, 66, 328 Indochina, 186, 189, 192, 193, 195– Guderian, General Heinz, 159, 163, 197, 205, 212, 214, 217, 282 164 IRA, 288, 289, 292–294, 296, 297, guerre révolutionnaire, 186, 212 299–305, 307–309, 311, 312, Gurtiev, Major-General Leonti, 82, 315 83, 89, 90, 92 Iran–Iraq War, 327 Iraq, v, vii, 281, 321, 322, 324–327, 329, 330, 336, 340, 346 H Iraqi Intervention Force (IIF), 338, Habbaniyah, 322–325, 331 339 Hadid, Omar, 326–328, 331 Irish National Liberation Army Hamas, 327 (INLA), 307 Hamid, Ben, 211, 217 Irrawaddy River, 130 Hanoi, 193, 244, 258, 274, 281 Harene, Gandriche, 208 Harrier, 332 J Hattab, Reda, 209 Japanese Army, 38, 40, 41, 43, 45, 50 Heath, Ted, 302 Japanese 15th Army, 129, 132 Heinrici, General Gotthard, 163, 164, Johnson, President Lyndon B., 221, 170, 175 225, 256, 257, 270 Hekkens, 105, 110, 111, 121 Jolan, 322, 324, 326, 327, 331, 332, Hermon, Jack, 305, 317 334–336, 339 Highway 10, 324, 329 Hitler, Adolf, 56, 57, 59–66, 68, 69, 77, 84–86, 88, 92, 93, 95, 107, K 152, 153, 159, 163, 174–176, Kapell, 112 178 Katamura, Lieutenant General Hitler Youth, 152, 165 Shihachi, 130, 144 Ho Chi Minh Trail, 257 Keitel, Field Marshal, 175 Hochwald-Balbergerwald, 114 Kessel, 61, 62, 64, 68, 70, 75, 76, 78, Horrocks, Lieutenant- General 87, 89, 91, 93, 110, 112, 121 Brian, 104, 105, 111, 116, 117, kesselschlachts, 59–62, 64–67, 75, 78, 124–127, 185 81, 87–89 Hue, 219–221, 223–249, 328, 340 KG Edelsheim, 73–75, 77, 79–83 Hue City, Operation, 220, 221, 231, KG Winterfeld, 77, 79–81, 83 236, 241 Kharkov, 60, 61 Humvee, 331, 333, 337–339 Khe Sanh, 221, 222, 241, 244, 261 Hussein, Saddam, 321–323, 325 King’s German Legion (KGL), 18 INDEX 367 King, Tom, 310 M Kiowa attack helicopter, 332 Maas, River, 104, 107, 114 Klein Esserden, 115, 120 machine guns, 40, 47, 51, 79, 108, Konev, Marshal Ivan, 157, 162, 167, 113, 119, 134, 136, 137, 140, 170 147, 168, 172, 204, 232, 233, Krylov, Major-General Nikolai, 69, 72 268, 328, 331–333 Kursk, 57, 159, 162 Madrid, vi, vii, 2, 3, 17 Kuwait, vii, 329 Malinovskiy, 64 Mamayev Kurgan, 71–73, 76–78, 80–82 L Manchukuo, 35, 36 Lacheroy, Charles, 195 Manchuria, 35, 38 Lacoste, Robert, 10, 12, 13, 192, 205, Manstein, Field Marshal Eric von, 60 206 Manteuffel, General Hasso von, 170 LaHue, Brigadier General Foster C. Marine Regimental Combat Teams “Frosty”, 228–230, 235–238, (RCTs), 329–331 240, 241, 246, 248, 249 Masséna, Marshal André, 17, 18, Lang Vei, 221, 222 20–22 Lannes, Marshal Jean, 3, 8–10, 12, Massu, General Jacques, 185, 190, 15, 17 192–199, 201–207, 209, 210, Laos, 229, 257 212, 215, 216 La Pointe, Ali, 210, 211, 217 Mattis, Major General Jim, 326 Leese, Oliver, 108 Meiktila, 130 Léger, Captain Paul, 208, 210, 212, M’Hidi, Ben, 204 217 Military Assistance Command, Le Havre, 108 Vietnam (MACV), 222, 224–226, Lejeune, General Louis-François, 3, 7, 233, 238, 243, 253, 254, 260, 16, 30, 205 262, 263, 266, 267, 279–283 Leningrad, 159 Mogadishu, vii, 321, 326, 340, 353 Libya, v, vii, 346 Möhnke, Brigadier General Wilhelm, Lisburn, 294 165, 175 Lisieux, 108, 124 Montgomery, Field Marshal Bernard, Londonderry, 287, 294, 301, 302, 316 104, 107, 114, 161 Lopatin, Lieutenant General, 68 Morocco, 186, 189 Lorillot, General, 194, 214 Mortars, 9, 71, 73, 79, 88, 91, 92, Luck, Colonel Hans Von, 174 108, 134, 137, 138, 141, 168, Luftwaffe, 61, 67, 69, 70, 73, 76, 79, 229, 230, 232, 234, 330, 335 80, 86, 88, 105, 164 Moscow, vi, 59, 65, 99, 100, 162, Lynch, Seamus, 305 175 368 INDEX N Plunder, Operation, 103, 114, 161 Napoleon, vi, 2, 3, 23–30 Poland, 2, 155, 156, 162, 181 National Liberation Army (ALN), Portadown, 294 186, 189, 190, 197, 198, Portugal, 3, 17, 18 202–204, 206–209, 212, 217 Provisional Irish Republican Army National Liberation Front (FLN), 186, (PIRA).
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