CALL: Echoes of Chechnya Warfare Resound in Moscow, Quantico

CALL Echoes of Chechnya Warfare Resound in Moscow, Quantico

CALL

Echoes of Chechnya Warfare Resound in Moscow, Quantico

Army · CALL · May 2000 · 8 pages

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Selections from the Current Issue May 2000 ©SIGNAL Magazine 2000 Echoes of Chechnya Warfare Resound in Moscow, Quantico Experiences gleaned in Caucasus urban battles shape Russian doctrine, but raise more questions for U.S. Marines planning future operations. By Robert K. Ackerman Several months of Russian attacks have shifted the balance of power in Chechnya and changed U.S. thinking about urban warfare. After suffering stunning public defeats just a few years ago, Russian forces applied painful lessons learned then to drive Chechen forces out of their capital city, Grozny, this year. Yet, according to U.S. analysts, this may have merely altered the thrust of battle, not resolved it. And, the tactics employed by both sides are forcing U.S. experts to take another look at the concept of urban warfare.

DesignationCALL

EditionMay 2000

StatusActive

Pages8

FunctionSmall Unit Tactics

CollectionLessons Learned